Another View of Upper Yosimite Falls

I gathered this view of Yosemite Falls while visiting the park in the spring 2003. I was walking along the Yosemite Creek and very much liked this view. The 1,4...
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I gathered this view of Yosemite Falls while visiting the park in the spring 2003. I was walking along the Yosemite Creek and very much liked this view. The 1,430-foot (440 m) plunge alone is among the twenty highest waterfalls in the world. Trails from the valley floor and down from other park areas outside the valley lead to both the top and base of Upper Yosemite Fall. The upper fall is formed by the swift waters of Yosemite Creek, which, after meandering through Eagle Creek Meadow, hurl themselves over the edge of a hanging valley in a spectacular and deafening show of force. The Ahwahneechee people called the waterfall "Cholock" "the fall" and believed that the plunge pool at its base was inhabited by the spirits of several witches, called the Poloti. An Ahwaneechee folktale describes a woman going to fetch a pail of water from the pool, and drawing it out full of snakes. Later that night, after the woman had trespassed into their territory, the spirits caused the woman's house to be sucked into the pool by a powerful wind, taking the woman and her newborn baby with it.
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