Here’s a nother great photo from Chaz, this one of the majestic firefall and El Capitan.
Chaz wrote: This photo places Horsetail Fall in its proper perspective on El Capitan. Taken on Monday, February 20, 2006 at 5:07 p.m. Sunset was still some 35 minutes away.
The spiritually moving tableau puts me in mind of an entry in Lafayette Bunnell’s journal written upon entering Yosemite Valley for the first time with the Mariposa Battalion in March, 1851. Bunnell wrote:
“It has been said that “it is not easy to describe in words the precise impressions which great objects make upon us.” I cannot describe how completely I realized this truth. None but those who have visited this most wonderful
valley can even imagine the feelings with which I looked upon the view that was there presented. The grandeur of the scene was but softened by the haze that hung over the valley, light as gossamer, and by the clouds which partially dimmed the higher cliffs and mountains. This obscurity of vision but increased the awe with which I beheld it, and as I looked, a peculiar exalted sensation
seemed to fill my whole being, and I found my eyes in tears with emotion.”I humbly felt the same…
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