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Yosemite California Holiday Ornament - Horsetail Firefall

Yosemite California Holiday Ornament - Horsetail Firefall

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A thin waterfall on a sheer granite face lit orange by the setting sun so it looks like falling fire, pines below and an evening sky. Horsetail Fall in February.

For about two weeks every February, if the sky is clear and the fall is running, the setting sun hits Horsetail Fall on the east face of El Capitan at an angle that turns the water the color of lava. Photographers line the valley road for it. The park once made a real firefall by pushing embers off a cliff every summer night; the natural one outlasted it.

The man-made firefall ran from 1872 to 1968. The natural one has been happening forever and was noticed only when someone photographed it.

A natural event you have to know the date for is the kind of thing a Yosemite regular hangs on the tree. The orange fall is the color; the rest is granite.

Horsetail Fall on El Capitan turns to fire for two weeks every Yosemite February, the Yosemite firefall that photographers wait all year for. This waterfall ornament is a Yosemite Christmas ornament and national park ornament, a Yosemite National Park souvenir and piece of Yosemite history.

Every Yosemite ornament ships ready to give. Hang it on the tree, in a window, off a lamp, or send one to the person who misses Yosemite most.

3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament, white-backed print, line-drawn in 1880s engraving style, your choice of white or gold gift box.


QUICK FACTS — YOSEMITE CA CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — HORSETAIL FIREFALL

Town: Yosemite, California

Founded: Yosemite Grant 1864; national park Oct 1, 1890

Known for: Half Dome and El Capitan; the 1864 Yosemite Grant, the birth of the park idea; Yosemite Falls; the giant sequoias

Art: Horsetail Firefall, original Merlin Classics engraving

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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What the soldiers found, others soon came to see. Within a few years travelers, hoteliers, and photographers were making the hard trip into the valley, and word of its scale spread east. The granite here is on a scale that stops people cold: Half Dome rising nearly a vertical mile above the valley floor, El Capitan standing as the largest exposed granite monolith in the United States, and Yosemite Falls dropping 2,425 feet in three tiers — among the tallest waterfalls in North America. Add the giant sequoias of the Mariposa Grove, trees older than the republic, and it is easy to see why the valley unsettled the people who first tried to describe it.

Then the country did something it had never done before. In 1864, in the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant, ceding Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove to the State of California on the condition that they be preserved, unspoiled, for public use — the first time the United States set aside scenic land purely for preservation. It predated Yellowstone and the national-park system itself; in a real sense the idea of the national park was born here. Galen Clark, the valley's first appointed Guardian, looked after the grant in those early years.

Why People Visit Yosemite

Yosemite offers wilderness on a scale few places can match — a glacier-cut valley of granite cliffs and waterfalls, giant sequoias older than the country, and the high Sierra beyond, all carrying the founding story of the national-park idea. Visitors come for Half Dome, El Capitan, and the falls, and stay for the sequoias, the meadows, and the long Sierra light. From a valley stroll to the high country, it rewards a day or a week. It is timeless, humbling, and unmistakably California.

Yosemite California Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the California Republic bear and Est. 1850