Yosemite!

In the early 60's when I was about 5 or 6, the Fire Falls at Yosemite National Park was the place to be! It was unreal! Any old farts out there that remember this? In the late afternoon, park workers would buid a huge fire at the top of Glacier Falls. At dark, they would push the ebers over the edge. Quite the site from the valley floor. Also during the same time period, you could watch larch bears in the meadow when large dumpsters were placed there. It was cool to watch the bears rummage around! Here's some reading: http://firefall.info/readers.html has some cool stuff to read about it!

The above two are all gone. Hell, now you can not even have a camp fire whil camping there To bad all the Eco-Nazi's put an end to the pure enjoyment of the park.
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To me, the bears looks HUGE! Driving home last night (down the Sonora Pass), I passed a small brown bear in the road, first one I have seen since I was a kid at Yosemite.