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2016 Hetch Hetchy Road rock fall

A person stands next to a large boulder.

A rock fall onto the Hetch Hetchy Road, approximately 1 km east of the Poopenaut Valley trailhead. Several boulders fell from the roadcut above the road. The road cut is cut into the glacial till, and these boulders are of glacial origin; rounded, and in a matrix of finer, unsorted sediments.

UTM East: 253039; UTM North: 4199934; Elevation: 1377

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Yosemite National Park, Code: YOSE

Hetch Hetchy
Latitude: 37.9134489403686, Longitude: -119.80927617

Hetch Hetchy Road
Yosemite National Park, California
Latitude: 37.8399200439453, Longitude: -119.540397644043

Rock Fall Database GroupID for YOSE : 2016110301
Rock Fall Database ID for YOSE : 2016110301-2

Yosemite Rock Falls Collection

20161104

11/03/2016

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Organization: Yosemite NP
Position: Park Geologist
Address: El Portal, CA 95318
Email: greg_stock@nps.gov

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