OT: Part of Curry Village Closed

FM Forum Rules
Rules: One new topic per day

FM Forums \| Landscape Photographer \| Join Upload & Sell	Search Used
end

Archive 2008 · OT: Part of Curry Village Closed

PaulS
Offline
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #1 · OT: Part of Curry Village Closed

FYI, for those planning to stay there while visiting Yosemite to be aware of more limited availability. From the L.A. Times article this morning:

Rock threat danger closes part of Yosemite lodging

About one-third of the lodging units available at Curry Village,will close permanently, park officials say.
The Associated Press
10:07 AM PST, November 21, 2008

The National Park Service said Friday it will close part of a popular lodging complex at Yosemite National Park because an unstable cliff has created the potential for deadly rockfall.

Park officials said 233 cabins will close permanently, or about one-third of the lodging units available at Curry Village to park visitors. About half of the 618 cabins have been off-limits since a rockfall on the historic complex Oct. 8.

The complete article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-yosemite22-2008nov22,0,55212.story

Nov 22, 2008 at 03:14 PM

Doug Otto
Offline
Upload & Sell: On

p.1 #2 · OT: Part of Curry Village Closed

I understand why they did it but honestly 2 people have been killed in 12 years. More people have died in DIsneyland.

Nov 22, 2008 at 06:07 PM

danmitchell
Offline
Dedicated FM
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #3 · OT: Part of Curry Village Closed

Actually, after spending a night in a Curry Village tent cabin in early November, and with some knowledge of the history of rockfall in the Valley, and having seen the aftermath of one giant fall close up, and after spending many decades wandering around the Sierra...

... I'm quite sure they are doing the right thing.

Nov 22, 2008 at 07:30 PM

wayne_eddy
Offline
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #4 · OT: Part of Curry Village Closed

beerguy wrote:
I understand why they did it but honestly 2 people have been killed in 12 years. More people have died in DIsneyland.

Disney is a private facility, NP's are government controlled.

I subscribe to the ideology that if you get eaten, crushed or lost in a natural area then that should be declared as part of natural selection rather than a point for litigation.

Actually putting a cabin under a rockfall risk and asking ppl to pay for a night is problematic.

Nov 23, 2008 at 04:24 AM

Robert Birnie
Offline
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #5 · OT: Part of Curry Village Closed

wayne_eddy wrote:
beerguy wrote:
I understand why they did it but honestly 2 people have been killed in 12 years. More people have died in DIsneyland.

Disney is a private facility, NP's are government controlled.

I subscribe to the ideology that if you get eaten, crushed or lost in a natural area then that should be declared as part of natural selection rather than a point for litigation.

Actually putting a cabin under a rockfall risk and asking ppl to pay for a night is problematic.

Is it problematic or does it just show which people the government thinks need to be naturally selected?

Nov 23, 2008 at 07:39 AM


FM Forums \| Landscape Photographer \| Join Upload & Sell end