Carey and I will be camping in Yosemite for our vacation next week. Today, I read this news from the Los Angeles Times:
A major rock slide this morning at Yosemite National Park injured three visitors, destroyed more than half a dozen cabins and prompted park officials to evacuate popular Curry Village as a precaution.
The slide let loose about 7 a.m. more than halfway up the 3,200-foot face of Glacier Point, which looms above the tent cabins and concession services on the valley floor below.
An 1,800-cubic-yard slab of rock cartwheeled down the cliff, shattered and sent boulders and fist-sized granite shrapnel spraying toward the edge of Curry Village and its more than 500 tent cabins, regular cabins and hotel rooms….
The rock fall was the second in two days at Glacier Point. Tuesday afternoon, a smaller slide sent boulders cascading toward Curry Village, destroying one tent cabin.
Thankfully the campground where we’ll be staying, according to the park rangers, is about a kilometer away, so we won’t be affected. Still, the news is a bit unsettling. I may wake up really early one morning and run through the campground, shaking a box of rocks near other peoples’ tents.
