"Horse tail" lights up in Yosemite on Friday evening

Millions of people from around the world flock to Yosemite valley in California to see granite rock with a height of thousands of meters and dazzling waterfalls. Yosemite falls (Yosemite Falls) is the most popular of them, but this week all eyes will be on the Horse tail falls (Horsetail Fall).

"This waterfall is located on the Eastern slope of the mountain El Capitan itself is small and rather inconspicuous, but in the middle or at the end of February at sunset, when the sun hits it at the right angle, it can glow orange like a fire, tearing off a cliff", — is reported on the website of the national Park.

To see this phenomenon, you have to be in the right place at the right time and hope that the weather will not fail. According to forecasts by Aaron Meyers, a professional photographer from California, this year's best conditions for observing the fire falls will be on Friday evening, February 22, 5:28 p.m. to 5:40 p.m. PST.

"The effect of a fire waterfall occurs in the second half of February, when clear skies and enough snow. But even a slight haze or cloud can significantly reduce or even eliminate the effect of" — noted the staff of the Park.

If the clouds still hurt Friday show, have a chance to see him in the evening at the weekend or early next week, although the show probably will not be so impressive. Spectators and photographers are beginning to take place a few hours before sunset. Visitors are warned that they were ready to go at least a kilometer from the Parking to the lookout, took warm clothes, boots and a lantern.

Between 1872 and 1968 in Yosemite national Park was popular like a fire show. Every day on the top of glacier point (Glacier point) lit the fire, which eventually turned into a pile of coal. In the evening darkness glowing red ashes off a cliff and he was falling thousands of meters down into the valley. The event was discontinued in early 1968, as Director of the national Park Service considered it unnatural. In addition, crowds of people wishing to occupy the best seat to view, could damage protected fields.

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