Foresta Out to Hetch Hetchy

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:59:59 -800

As I might've mentioned earlier, to get to Hetch Hetchy Reservoir from
Yosemite, one heads westward out of the valley onto the road that goes to
CA-120. Around the first bend on this road is Foresta, a place (probably)
named for what it once used to be: trees. Many years ago, however, a huge fire
must have come ripping through this area, for there were numerous blackened
leafless trunks all over the place. At the same time, however, there were many
smaller trees and shrubs growing on the ground, suggesting that the the fire was
not any time recent. Most likely, they simply let the fire burn until it burned
itself out and left what we see in the pictures (aa030126a - 27a).