Parkline Slab rockfall closes 140 (2017-06-12)

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mucci

Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
Jun 14, 2017 - 02:43pm PT
Who is gonna get to that new corner first? Rematch? Hehe


That is a proper trundle, bravo.

Thanks for the report!
gstock

climber
Yosemite Valley
Jun 14, 2017 - 02:52pm PT
Clint and I are making good use of each others photos. Here is a "before-and-after" comparison of the rockslide source area, with the slab that fell colored yellow; the "before" photo on the left is by Clint.

Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2017 - 02:54pm PT
Great work, Greg!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 15, 2017 - 06:20pm PT
There is a big downside to this rockfall...the commute from Mariposa and especially from El Portal just got extended by a huge factor.

The mileages and times are right off the Google machine.

Say you work in Yosemite Village or the Lodge - here's what you'd be looking at now.

Mileage from El Portal to Mariposa 28.2 miles/44 minutes

Mileage from Mariposa to Fishcamp 40 miles/55 minutes

Mileage from Fishcamp to Yosemite Lodge 34 miles/68 minutes

Total mileage El Portal to Yosemite Lodge 103.2 miles/2 hrs 47 mins

The normal El Portal to Yosemite Lodge run is listed as 15.5 miles/35 minutes.

Good luck with all that, guys.
john hansen

climber
Jun 15, 2017 - 06:23pm PT
Can you get around it if you take the Foresta road to 120?
stunewberry

Trad climber
Spokane, WA
Jun 15, 2017 - 06:39pm PT
In Greg's picture a couple of posts up, there is in the two before photos a very faint line left of the fallen block and parallel to its edge, outlined with a few blobs of munge, which I presume to be a crack. The munge blobs are gone in the after shot (along with a lot of blobs reduced in size or gone above and right of the rockfall and further left). The fall line couldn't have wiped out the blobs, and it's unlikely they shrank because of the very wet winter. What causes munge to die back in a wet winter? And, if that is a crack, there may be more rockfall on the way "soon."
WBraun

climber
Jun 15, 2017 - 06:47pm PT
Mileage from El Portal to Mariposa 28.2 miles/44 minutes

You don't go to Mariposa.

You take Triangle road across to 49 to Oakhurst then 41 to the park .....

Or ... park car at Foresta.

Walk/run or ride mt bike up/down forest road aprx (5 miles) to get to work from El Portel.
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2017 - 09:19pm PT
stunewberry,
In Greg's picture a couple of posts up, there is in the two before photos a very faint line left of the fallen block and parallel to its edge, outlined with a few blobs of munge, which I presume to be a crack. The munge blobs are gone in the after shot (along with a lot of blobs reduced in size or gone above and right of the rockfall and further left). The fall line couldn't have wiped out the blobs, and it's unlikely they shrank because of the very wet winter. What causes munge to die back in a wet winter? And, if that is a crack, there may be more rockfall on the way "soon."
That is indeed a (shallow as I recall) thin crack that peters out into face climbing.
The before shot was taken in 2011.
We climbed that crack in January 2013, and a few munge blobs magically disappeared in the process....
The (vertical) crack does not appear to me to be a big rockfall risk at present,
because it does not have an attached huge flake to the right applying torque.
The fresh corner just to the right, where the rockfall originated has a crack extending higher.
This crack probably prevents the fresh overhang on the right from applying torque to the thin vertical crack we are discussing.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 15, 2017 - 09:52pm PT
Triangle road across to 49

DOH! Shoulda oughta thoughta that.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 17, 2017 - 12:00pm PT
Yosemite Incident Feed
(provided by neebee, from Chris Falkenstein)

FROM NPS/Friday

Yosemite crews have been hard at work this week. Last night they completed blasting of the large boulders and clearing debris from the El Portal Road. Today they installed K-rail to temporarily replace the missing guardrail. Tonight, a contractor is on site preparing an emergency sewer line bypass in the event that it becomes necessary. Early Saturday morning excavation and assessment of the sewer line will begin. Once the sewer line has been excavated it will be assessed for damages to the line. Depending on the size of the damage park crews may be able to effect repairs. Otherwise more substantial repairs will be contracted to an outside vendor on an emergency basis. The regional office contract staff are on standby to get this in place if needed. Also, tomorrow, U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highways engineer will do a geotechnical assessment of the up and downhill slopes. This assessment will see if additional engineering work is needed to guide repairs or, once the sewer is repaired, crews can move to a temporary gravel road.

We still do not have an estimate for when the road may open to either administrative or public traffic. Depending on the exact location of the sewer line under the road, the excavation may eliminate the possibility of even one lane of traffic until repair work has been completed.
On-Site Flasher 69

Sport climber
Riverside
Jun 17, 2017 - 09:15pm PT
Hwy 140 is open into Yosemite!!!!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 17, 2017 - 11:35pm PT
Correctomundo as of 6 a.m. Sunday.

https://sierranewsonline.com/highway-140-into-yosemite-now-reopened/

Thanky, Flash.
BruceHildenbrand

Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
Jun 18, 2017 - 12:21am PT
The pad people aren't going to be too happy about this!

kaholatingtong

Trad climber
The real McCoy from the inside of my van.
Jun 24, 2017 - 08:22am PT
Another rockfall and 140 closed again ? Damn!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 24, 2017 - 08:58am PT
^^^^Quote: "Just climb some slab, we generally have those..." (Your recent post on another thread.)

Surely you're not referring to yet ANOTHER SLIDE which just happened today?
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jun 24, 2017 - 09:08am PT
Who's gonna get the FA on that new corner?
Mike Bolte

Trad climber
Planet Earth
Jun 24, 2017 - 09:14am PT
the area under the slab that came off is pretty well "pre-weathered". Do you reckon (Greg) that there was little contact on the face before it came off?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jun 24, 2017 - 09:14am PT
YOU da man with the right name, Bruce. YOU do it!!
kaholatingtong

Trad climber
The real McCoy from the inside of my van.
Jun 24, 2017 - 10:36am PT
Unless the rumors in the kitchen are false, I am infact talking about another slide, I iust havent had the chance to investigate more yet, figured word would be out here first...
WBraun

climber
Jun 24, 2017 - 11:08am PT
140 IS open.

A few small rocks fell down earlier and were cleared .....
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