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Hike · Pohono trailhead

Pohono Trail

Distance
5.6 mi
Vertical
3,163 ft
Summit
7,402 ft
Difficulty
Strenuous

Bridalveil Fall is one of the most prominent waterfalls in Yosemite Valley, a single drop of 617 feet from a hanging valley on the south wall — the kind of cliff edge left behind when a glacier scoured the main valley below much deeper than the side canyons feeding into it.…

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Bridalveil Fall in late-spring flow, the white ribbon hanging in front of Cathedral Rocks above the Merced floodplain.
Nancyswikiaccount · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tunnel View — El Capitan on the left, Half Dome distant center, and Bridalveil Fall on the right pouring from its hanging valley.
Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bridalveil from below, the lacy plume falling against polished granite — the angle the trail climbs from on the south side.
Steffen Schmitz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Late-summer flow, the falling water already wind-blown and incomplete by the time it reaches the ground below.
Pimlico27 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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