Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - May 8, 2008 - 12:18am PT
|
There's a good fire going right now and getting bigger as the night flies.
It's right on top of the Royal Arches finish.
Who bivied up there last night?
|
|
Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
|
|
Some rap bolters
|
|
Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
|
|
Hey Werner,
I noticed it today around 4:00 and called dispatch. They said there was a fire crew going up tomorrow morning. I mentioned it was pretty windy and that it had reached the summit above the spring.
Someone must have had a long day yesterday or there was a barbecue we missed.
Ken
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2008 - 12:28am PT
|
The fire is going pretty good right now Ken.
Yosemite fire speculates it was climbers for sure.
|
|
Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
|
|
"speculates it was climbers for sure."
call it what it is. no lightning up there was there?
|
|
scooter
climber
fist clamp
|
|
I live in Fish Camp. There was lighting here the last few days.
Patrick
|
|
TomLambert
Social climber
Yosemite, CA
|
|
I took a bunch of pictures of it. It has since fallen down and looks to be burning that brushy area on the lower pitches. For a while it was really going both at the top and at the bottom, with trails of embers falling down.
BTW - there was lots of lightning in Yosemite West too, but AFAIK there were just a few sprinkles and no lightning up toward the Valley. Also, it is *right* where the RA route ends.
We'll see if this works. I think my gallery software might block hotlinking. Anyway, there should be two pics here:
For more pics, and bigger versions:
http://yosemiteexplorer.com/albums/v/pow/royalarchesfire/
[edit]Hey! it worked! First time I've tried to show a photo[/edit]
[second edit]Okay, it didn't work. It just looked that way because they're in my browser cache. I would have to upload them here to get the pictures to work and I don't know how to do that[/edit]
|
|
Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
|
|
I am going to write a bunch of wordy analysis about this, interspersed with lots of speculation, and with a good heap of punctuation.
'Should be back here in about an hour...
|
|
Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
|
|
um Tom.. It did not work over here. Maybe you are just seeing your images in your cache. I see no pics.
|
|
TomLambert
Social climber
Yosemite, CA
|
|
Sorry - I think my gallery software is blocking it. It looked okay to me and then my wife said she couldn't see it. I think I only saw the pic because they are in the browser cache.
The link should work though.
Is there a way to upload pics instead of just linking?
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2008 - 12:58am PT
|
I see the photos, they showed up in this thread.
I didn't see no lightning in the past 2 days here.
|
|
Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
|
|
Werner,
I am not surprised that is the consensus. Seems to me it would take a really big fire to burn to the top of the last pitch and a much smaller one to have something roll off and catch on the ledge with the spring.There was lightning recently.
Ken
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2008 - 01:00am PT
|
When was the lightning?
Yesterday?
|
|
TomLambert
Social climber
Yosemite, CA
|
|
Ken, sorry my pics aren't showing, but follow the link - the whole ledge with the spring is burning and stuff is rolling off that and down the slabs. Kind of cool really - I'm too young to have seen the Glacier Point Firefall.
It looks like things started high with a small fire that's still pretty small, rolled down onto the ledge with the spring where it really took off, and then rolled down all the way almost to the base where it looks it also took off pretty good for a while.
If you go to the gallery, I have pics from 2pm and then another set from 8pm that show the evolution pretty well.
Werner, the lightning was on Sunday. A pretty good storm rolled through the high country. I wasn't in the Valley, but folks who were say there was little to no lightning there.
|
|
Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
|
|
Tom: If you use an absolute link it will work: Click on the image in the gallery... Select "Open the image in a new window", window will open outside the gallery, and use that URL. At least on a Mac....
|
|
k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
|
|
I thought the firefall was on the other side of the valley.
|
|
TomLambert
Social climber
Yosemite, CA
|
|
Yes, the firefall was from Glaicer Point
Russ, I did use absolute links (I've built lots of web sites, I know how it should be done). And your image is broken in my browser too!
Just follow the link I gave - that works for sure.
Meanwhile, Theresa is trying to post them on her blog and we'll see if the links from there work.
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2008 - 01:18am PT
|
So today's is Wednesday and the fire started today.
Where did this so called lightning that started this fire come from? There hasn't been any lightning for 3 days up till today.
|
|
TomLambert
Social climber
Yosemite, CA
|
|
I disabled hotlink protection - now they show up.
And in looking at the pics with my wife leaning over my shoulder correcting me, it's lower down than I thought.
|
|
JLP
Social climber
The internet
|
|
Wow - the ultimate Gumby does Royal Arches story!
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!