[at-l] Burning river childhood memories

[shellydhale at earthlink.net (Shelly Hale)]

Wow...that really was a beautiful picture on that web page.  The sites says
that they made the fire with red fir bark.

Shelly Hale
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
To: <Slyatpct@aol.com>; <shellydhale@earthlink.net>; <DTimm65344@aol.com>;
<ellen@clinic.net>; <lorac4491@linkamerica.net>; <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Burning river childhood memories


> At 09:35 AM 8/4/2004 -0400, Slyatpct@aol.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 8/3/2004 11:16:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >shellydhale@earthlink.net writes:
> >
> > > The river actually was on fire?  Whoa...how unbelievable.  It must
have
> > > been
> > > some sight.  And, the smell?  Ugh?   Just imagine all of the toxins in
the
> > > air that you could have or were exposed to watching that fire.
> > >
> >
> >If I'm not mistaken they used to add gas and light Yosemite Falls on fire
> >intentionally for the visitors.
> >
> >I imagine that was quite a sight, but not very smart.
> >
> >Sly
>
> No gas involved and it wasn't the falls. The park officials had a ritual
> they called "firefall" which consisted of building a very large bonfire
and
> pushing it over the edge of Glacier Point (photo at
> http://www.yosemitefirefall.org/). While the burning Cuyahoga River was
the
> inadvertent result of pollution, the Yosemite "firefall" was a deliberate
> act for the amusement of the tourists. They don't do it anymore. The last
> one was in January 1968.
>
>