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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 21, 2007 - 12:48am PT
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My much older cousin took his honeymoon in Yosemite, so I got to see it on home movies. Pretty cool, too bad they stopped.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Sep 21, 2007 - 12:52am PT
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glad you didn't go away neebee - you're a really special person and I hope to see you around a long time.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2007 - 12:55am PT
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hey there raydog... say, thanks for getting the pics up here... say, i just saw a post from:
gary...
say, i had forgot that they DID have a type of video camera back in them days.... we never had them, so i didn't realize that... sure not like todays---but say, what a "one of a kind" home movie!
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Sep 21, 2007 - 12:56am PT
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For you Neebee from an old postcard.
Ken
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2007 - 12:58am PT
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hey there raydog... thanks....say, i got a lot of "studying" to do, and lots of editing for my fiction novels... but i plan to stay where my brother "name" has drawn me.... good ol' yosemite, is near at hand here....
i may miss a few days... but there 's a few "streams" here for me, most likely.... :)
*reckon, i got to brush the ol' food out of my hair, on occasion, though... :)
say, i got to keep yosemites "firefall" alive, and look after its "up-keep" for a bit of future history....
**say, i wonder how many park rangers are still around that remember it, too????
anyone know???
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Sep 21, 2007 - 01:01am PT
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hey there neebee,
say...no problem
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2007 - 01:04am PT
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hey there chicken skinner.... man, OH, man...
you really DID it...
my computer is so slow to open photos that this POSTCARD unfolded JUST as if the firefall was coming down--------wellllllllllll, perhaps a MITE slower, one must confess....
say, chicken skinner... that post card sure is old, huh? :)
and you know---its one of the most wonderful things i seen lately... that and those photos from jody, on that post of his....
say, i like the fact that the CAMP CURRY sign showed up there... you know, that postcard, hmmm... just may become a 'family heirloom' there... hang onto it...
thanks again, and very very much... to all you guys...
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scuffy b
climber
The deck above the 5
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Sep 21, 2007 - 11:25am PT
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I want to make clear that those Rangers Did Not Use a Loudspeaker
to communicate with each other.
"Hello Glacier Point."
"Hello Camp Curry."
"Let the Fire fall."
"The Fire falls"
The guys at Camp Curry told the same joke about using flash bulbs
for decades, probably.
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CascadeOtto
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 21, 2007 - 11:57am PT
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I remember the firefall from family vacations in the sixties. I was around 10 years old, my Dad was in the Navy reserve and had to go to San Diego every summer. I remember the platform tents so it must have been Curry camp. We got to stay up late and watch the firefall. It was all awesome for this child.
I wish I could remember more specific rocks I played on. Getting to the top was a goal even then, but with no notion that grownups did this with equipment and techniques.
The firefall was one more dish in the feast that was summer camping in California!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2007 - 12:01am PT
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hey there cascade otto... say, as to this, what you said:
"I wish I could remember more specific rocks I played on. Getting to the top was a goal even then, but with no notion that grownups did this with equipment and techniques.
The firefall was one more dish in the feast that was summer camping in California!"
i too, wish i could remember what rocks i had climbed on... they were just great... wish i could go back and check that one
exact part of yosemite out again...
plus, oddly, my ex, was in the navy reserve, and after i had my own kids in texas, the ONLY way they got to experience calif, was by us traveling (they paid gas)... and then we drove up to san jose, while he went back down to san diego---my kids DID get to go to ALPINE LAKE, to camp... but as my ex was not wanting to camp, etc---that was the end of it...years, later, we DID make to yosemite, and they felt the magic, too...
thanks for the share... man, that navy reserve, was the only link to calif that we had for near 25 years...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2007 - 12:03am PT
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hey there scrufyb... thanks for the info, on this!:
"I want to make clear that those Rangers Did Not Use a Loudspeaker
to communicate with each other." and the fun, etc, that followed...
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TomKimbrough
Social climber
Salt Lake City
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Sep 22, 2007 - 10:48am PT
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I did Half Dome NWF, must have been Memorial Day weekend ’67. Two nights on the face, nailed everything we could, no one else there. The fire falls were a nightly treat!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 23, 2007 - 06:46pm PT
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hey there tom.... say, thanks for the share... wow, and back in '67.... say, and no one was there for the climb, or for the firefall?
seems you had your very own speical TREAT!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 23, 2007 - 06:50pm PT
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hey there all, say this bit of history branches out so very wide, that i had posted this same note of the firefalls at some other sites that i usually hang-out at....
turns out that a few folks always start to surface that HAVE seen the firefall--and it was always an added treat, they say, to the enormous beauty of yosemite...
also, there are many younger folk that had NO IDEA that such a thing ever even existed... it seems to be a sort of hidden treasure.... though, of course, not as lovely as the real rocks of nature---but still, a beauty all its own...
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Larry
Trad climber
Bisbee
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Sep 25, 2007 - 12:19am PT
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I remember my cousin, who lived in the Bay area, telling me about seeing the firefall. He's gone now.
He also told me about what happened when people took this thing called LSD.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 22, 2013 - 04:42am PT
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BUMP FOR FIRE!
"This history was posted on Jan 25, 1998 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the last Yosemite Firefall."
It's the same one neebee published in the OP.
http://firefall.info/readers.html
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 28, 2014 - 11:20am PT
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A bump in the night.
Oops! There he goes, so sorry! And another one bites the dust...
The night time is the right time to see the stars above
It's also the right time to be in the City you love,
the City of Light.
Here's a page that was brought to my attn. by the book I'm involved in, The Good Inn.
http://centenaire.org/en/fernand-jacopozzi-magician-light
Quite a story.
Like Nick Fiore.
There is an interview with Nick and Huell Howser here someplace. I'll let you find it on your own. It's in four parts. Just Google Huell's name and 'firefall.'
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jul 28, 2014 - 11:42am PT
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My grandmother (90 years old) always talks wistfully of the firefall whenever we talk about Yosemite. Definitely a hallmark of a bygone era and a different attitude about parks and the outdoors. I can only imagine it was a truly breathtaking sight. I'm glad it's not done anymore but I can sure understand why they did it.
When I complained to my grandmother about the existence of the Ahwahnee I remember she responded "well Yosemite would be a very different place if you couldn't stay there." Not much of an outdoorsman but a great lady.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jul 28, 2014 - 05:23pm PT
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I think I saw the last ones in 1968. I was 25 at the time and on my first visit to Yosemite, although by then I'd already been climbing for 11 years, having spent most of my formative climbing days in Devil's Lake Wisconsin, the Gunks, and the Tetons.
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