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National Parks Travel: Getting Stoned at Yosemite

After a rock slide on Tuesday damaged an unoccupied cabin, another pile of debris forced hundreds of visitors from their vacation hideaways Wednesday at Yosemite National Park. Thursday, park officials reopened some of the cabins in Curry Village while still investigating what caused to rocks to tumble.

The LA Times has an thesaurus-friendly description of the excitement, which injured three:

An 1,800-cubic-yard slab of rock cartwheeled down the cliff, shattered and sent boulders and fist-size granite shrapnel toward the edge of Curry Village and its more than 500 tent cabins, regular cabins and hotel rooms.

Park Ranger Erik Skindrud said about 1,000 visitors had to be evacuated in the slide's aftermath, many of them visiting schoolchildren and their chaperons.

The slide started just below Glacier Point, and park officials have been examining the area by helicopter to determine what may have caused the rocks to fall.

Related Stories:
· Some Curry Village Cabins Reopened After Slide [SFC]
· Rock Slide in Yosemite Injures Three, Forces Partial Closure [LAT]
· National Parks coverage [Jaunted]

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