Throwback Thursday

Do you remember the 70s band, Firefall? They had a couple of big hits including, "Just Remember I Love You" and "Strange Way". Their name came from a Yosemite tradition that ran from 1872 to 1968 in which a bonfire was lit at Glacier Point. After sunset the burning embers were dumped over the cliff so that visitors in the Yosemite Valley could see the “firefall” drop 3000 feet onto the valley floor below. Conducted by the owners of the Glacier Point Hotel, the firefalls ended in January 1968 when the National Park Service ordered them to stop. Ironically, the hotel was destroyed by fire just one year later.



In 1871 the original owner of the hotel hired a man to build the Four Mile Trail , which still leads to Glacier Point to this day.







Jeff

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