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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (141)	3/31/2002 1:15:36 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 268

I worked for almost a year looking directly up at that first one ....Yosemite Falls. I walked that trail up and down so many times...just awesome , and beyond description that place . I also once helped Ansel Adams carry some of his camera gear several times, and invited by his wife to visit with them down towards monterey/Carmel area after. I was a little adventurer/hiker up there in the heaven that is Yosemite , and know places you to go there you wouldn't believe. ...Ansel and his wife had/have a Gallery down in the valley just over from the Lodge . Visited and stopped in often just to say "hi". One of the greatest time I had there, was when I heard of these astronomers having a Meteor watch up ontop of Glacier Point ...I hiked up the 5mile trail , started a little late and made it up the switchbacks by dark ...(knew them by heart) and spent the entire night gazing at the heavens thru a 24" telescope they had set up. I was surrounded by everything beautiful above and around me up there ....who needed sleep under those stars ? I don't think I ever really made it down from there for a long long time , perhaps the rest of my life . Such a great shot of the "Falls" , brings back so many beautiful memories... I was /am always partially still there . ;-)

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (141)	3/31/2002 1:49:55 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 268

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 .