Yosemite Falls

Cathleen and Caleb with Yosemite Falls in the background, 2001

Yosemite Falls must be impressive in Spring, when the snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains begins to melt. As the year goes on, however, the amount of water which goes over the Falls diminishes until barely any trickles down in autumn. I know this for a fact. The picture above, of my cousin Caleb and myself, was taken during early summer, 2001. As you can see, there was actually water going over the Falls. Not a lot but some. What you can see is the upper Falls and some of the lower Falls.

However, in all of my pictures taken early fall of 2008, no water at all comes down the upper Falls; there is but a trickle in the lower Falls. Again, as with most other waterfalls in the Park at this time of year, no (or little to no) water. I was disappointed. No water, no pictures from that time on the site.

I visited the Valley again in winter of 2010. Some of the snow was beginning to melt up in the higher Sierras, so plenty of water was flowing over the Falls. I stayed at the Lodge at the Falls, located about 1/2 to the southwest of the Falls. It was as I walked over to the Falls from the Lodge that I realized the Falls are actually 3 falls (I'd always thought it was just an Upper and a Lower Falls but, no, there is a small Middle Falls as well). It rained the last full day of my 2010 trip so the Falls were somewhat obscured by the mist.

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