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Julia Clarke

Hundreds of boulders come crashing down, blocking popular long-distance trail in Yosemite National Park

Sign along Yosemite National Park Tioga Pass for the Pacific Crest Trail and John Muir trail.

Now that the spring weather has arrived, you might have been hoping to get your hiking boots out and enjoy some of the best hikes in Yosemite National Park, but one trail will have to wait after a massive rockslide blocked one of the park's most popular hiking trails.

In an Instagram post dated yesterday, park officials revealed that the rockfall had occurred late at night on April 15. Hundreds of giant boulders, which you can see in images below, fell from the slope above the John Muir Trail between Clark Point and the top of Nevada Fall.

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