Friday, February 4, 2011

Three Chute Falls

Three Chute Falls is a waterfall on Tenaya Creek, in Yosemite National Park in the U.S. state of California. The falls are located shortly upstream of Mirror Lake, although they are relatively obscure. It receives its name from the three distinct "chutes" that the creek splits into upon flowing onto a slab of granite atop the falls, after which it plunges about 80 feet (24 m) into a congregation of boulders. The waterfall is easily reached by proceeding upstream along the Mirror Lake Trail, although access to it does require some scrambling.

Not very far upstream, is the much larger, 600-foot (180 m) Pywiack Cascade.

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