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Fluoride
Trad climber
Hollywood, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 7, 2008 - 06:59pm PT
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Anyone up there when this happened? How bad was it?
BC-CA--Yosemite Rock Slide,0056 Yosemite park rangers respond to rock slide Eds: APNewsNow.
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Rangers are responding to the scene of a rock slide in Yosemite National Park near Curry Village at the east end of the valley floor.
A park spokesperson says there are no evacuations under way and no reports of injuries.
Curry Village is home to the winter ice rink and amphitheater.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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None of the webcams are working. Two are black screen.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I bet Ouch could show us what happened.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
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"None of the webcams are working. Two are black screen. "
They've been like that for a while now.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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bump for pic request
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WBraun
climber
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I just came back from our response to this situation.
The disaster is over, some trees and shrubs got nailed, one tent cabin damaged, no injuries.
Life goes on ...........
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there wbraun.. say, thanks... nice to know...
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Last week when I headed back to SF, I took the road out of Yosemite that goes to Merced. When I saw that section of land where the rockslide obliterated the road - I was really taken aback! SO much more powerful than I ever would have guessed. What a pile of rubble.
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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what time did it occur?
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WBraun
climber
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When the rock fell off the wall ......
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Nice, Werner!
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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no, seriously... i'm looking at data - any idea what time it occurred?
or, i'll just wait 'till greg gets down...
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WBraun
climber
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cleo
Seriously, the radio went off into emergency talking mode. Red flag, .... lot's of fast talking traffic and emergency tones.
We roll with lights and sirens for ambiance.
Arrive on scene with lots of dust and confusion from the denizens that were at the scene.
Incident command immediately starts engaging appropriate personnel on what to do.
Who's looking at a clock? Dispatch most likely.
Not me ........
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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s'ok Werner
I'm glad nobody was hurt.
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Dr. Rock
Ice climber
http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br
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Hey, was that our new climbing ranger Erik talkin it with the press, full props, already on the scene!
The Rodgers Slide and Glacier, might be getting pushed by Buena Vista Ridge down to Horse Ridge.
Everything on the North end of the park should be cool.
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Brock
Trad climber
RENO, NV
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Do you think it was the recent rain and freezing temps that led to the rockfall? Seems that the majority of large rockslides I have seen in the Valley have been in early Spring or Fall..A time when temps are fluctuating along with rain/snow/ice.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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What ever became of the new shitters and septic system up on Glacier Point, that many thought was the cause of all these recent rockfalls?
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Blakeb
Big Wall climber
Ashland, Oregon
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6:55am, Oct. 8th another curry rock slide, it rumbled for quite a while this time, havent seen the after math yet, talked to some friends in curry, said they were safe and large rock dust cloud in air, lots of sirens followed. This one sounded larger than last. Heard some tourists were moved yesterday from curry to housekeeping. Hope everyone is ok over there.
PS: Heard there was some sort of interaction between a deer and tourist yesterday, not sure if tourist was petting or feeding deer, but the deer was angered and rangers called
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Blakeb
Big Wall climber
Ashland, Oregon
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I wouldnt use that time as a precise time for some data, it could have been 6:58, i was half awake, but it did rumble for a solid minute or longer. Bump
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