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Melting snow leaves falls gushing, rivers bulging

San Jose Mercury News

Monday 25 July 2005, 12:16 pm
Keywords: News Articles

By Patrick May, Mercury News

Normally as dry as a drumstick in late July, the park right now is a water wonderland. Lower those Six Flags -- Yosemite is now California's top water park. The winter's huge snowpack is finally melting, waterfalls and rivers are gushing, and the leaking sieve of valley walls looks like a plumbing project on a divine scale.

Ribbon and Sentinel Falls are making rare cameo appearances. Rafters are jockeying for position on the fattened Merced River. So many mosquitoes have invaded Tuolumne Meadows that biologists say the bats are getting their fill in two hours and then going home early.

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