Oh wait ...
that was Bridal Veil....not Yosemite Falls .
Oh , jeez , I could tell you a story of a hike i took late in August up above and behind Bridal Veil . There was only a virtual trickle of a stream coming off there, so that it only fell so far before it was turned into a mist that wafted and widened out as it had 500ft more to fall.
From one vantage point prominitory i made it out to above it I sensed some kind of effect taking place in the mist and just the hint of color and etherial hue...my heart started to race as I looked at the next point down on the map...it was Watkin's point I think.
I hiked fast and almost ran that next qtr mile , and as the sun was setting to the west , and the white golden beams passed up into the valley as I reached out and stood looking down from Watkin's Point ...I saw something I'll never forget . The entire widening mist falling down was turned into one shimmering scintilating wash of color and incredible rainbow hues , drifting down the spectrums all the way down 600ft !<GGGG>
It was the most unearthly vision I have ever seen , almost as though Disney had painted if on
but this was a real fantasia too incredible to describe.
I was probably the only hiker up that dry dusty trail that time of summer , people wouldn't be up in there when so hot and dry...and prolly only I had ever recently caught such conditions so "just right" to see that kind of incredible phenomenon, being positioned just right to witness it .
I was young and alone...alone with a vision of heaven so real . It was also my last hike in that place for I was saying goodbye to the valley after being there for some time ....and thay beautiful Valley was saying goodbye to me , almost like a lover . Places like that are really alive , or one could easily start to believe.
I was so sad to have to leave, and prolly shouldn't have ...I am in love with Bridal Veil Falls , so deeply words cannot hardly express .
Such a very , very sacred place in my life .,...
I was so young and alone....but not alone . |
