This rare natural phenomenon makes El Capitan shimmer as if it were an erupting volcano.
Even if you’ve been to California’s impressive Yosemite National Park and marveled at the stunning vertical rock formation known as El Capitan , you probably haven’t seen it like this.
Horsetail Fall , a waterfall that only flows down El Capitan in the winter and early spring, is glowing like a lava flow thanks to the setting sun.
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« (If the conditions are perfect) when the setting sun’s rays hit the waterfall at just the right angle, (they illuminate) the water in brilliant reds and oranges, » the U.
