the most popular big-wall route up the unmistakable 3,000-foot cliff that greets people entering Yosemite Valley. By the evening, they’d strung their banner tight across the sheer rock face ...

More than a week after a massive rockslide cut off access to one of the main entrances into Yosemite National Park ... closure of the highway.” “The rock avalanche took the asphalt off ...

The slide came crashing down March 17, across both lanes of Highway 140, a scenic winding route along the Merced River between the town of Mariposa and Yosemite’s Arch Rock entrance.

They fitted large industrial pillows, like air bags on a car, behind the suspended loose rocks, and inflated them with compressors ... just outside what is now Yosemite’s Arch Rock Entrance.