It is the raw, quick flesh of the mountain wholly untouched by the weather.

In summer droughts when the snowfall of the preceding winter has been light, the fall is reduced to a mere shower of separate drops without any obscuring spray.

Then we may safely go back of it and view the crystal shower from beneath, each drop wavering and pulsing as it makes its way through the air, and flashing off jets of colored light of ravishing beauty.

But all this is invisible from the bottom of the Valley, like a thousand other interesting things.

One must labor for beauty as for bread, here as elsewhere.
The Grandeur Of The Yosemite Fall During the time of the spring floods the best near view of the fall is obtained from Fern Ledge on the east side above the blinding spray at a height of about 400 feet above the base of the fall.