Exuberant Yosemite Firefall- 2019

Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter.”

~Ansel Adams

Yosemite Firefall- 2019

“It all happened on one late evening, where I received a call all of a sudden from my friend- an invite to Yosemite National Park and that turned out to tell my story of enchanting experience which will recede in my heart for life time.”

Before going to the story, let me give a brief introduction, where you can plot the nature’s show. It’s all forms of nature the Sun, Clouds, Snow, Wind, Water were all constituted to create blazing fire. May be that is the reason it’s called as Natural phenomenon. 

Yosemite Firefall: Once in a Life time Experience

Every year during second or third week of February, the firefall event takes place during the sun set time on the Horse tail falls located on the eastern edge of El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley. The Horse tail fall is a very short fall of about 1500 feet. It is very hard to be seen through naked eyes. During this part of the season, on a perfect sunset, where the sun rays touches the water falls in such an angle where it gives the feel as it is a firefall or melting lava. In order to experience this natural phenomenon, mostly there are four factors which make or break the event to happen. There should be good amount of snow for the season, and there should be water in the Horsetail falls, good amount of warmness from sun to melt the snow and the most important factor it should be a clear sky. It’s like a hit or miss thing you never know, whether all this happens or not at all. Let’s see what happened:

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