Rock climbers recently spotted the crack, reportedly 200 feet long, on the western side of the Royal Arches, Yosemite National Park officials said.
“It looked like a giant oversized grand piano falling in slow motion,” said a park visitor from London who captured part of the rock’s plunge on video.“A climbing ranger and a geologist observed it firsthand and they could hear it cracking like a frozen lake that wasn’t consolidated,” supervisory park ranger Jesse McGahey told Outside. “And there were pieces of rock rattling down the crack without touching it. The park geologist said they’d never seen anything like this.
of the Yosemite Valley Loop Trail at the Ahwahnee hotel. There is no timeline for a complete reopening of the trail, but in the meantime hikers can take a detour. All climbing routes from Peruvian Flake West to the Rhombus Wall are also closed, including the popular routes Serenity Crack/Sons of Yesterday and Super Slide.
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