Gary-Summer: Place: CA-Ribbon

Sunday, January 18, 1970

Place: CA-Ribbon

Ribbon Creek(El Capitan)
Ribbon Meadow
Ribbon Falls6,293' (El Capitan) (37.735833, -119.648333) - Falls

Description:
“The Indians call this Lung-oo-too-koo-yah, or the graceful and slender one; while a lady, whose name shall be nameless, once christened it ‘Virgin’s Tears’.” (Hutchings: In the Heart of the Sierras, 1886, p. 398.) “Lungyotuckoya. The Virgin’s Tears Creek, meaning Pigeon Creek.” (Whitney: Yosemite Guide Book, 1870, p. 16.)

“Mr. Hutchings, who, were it not for his exuberant imagination, might have learned better, gives the signification of ‘Lung-oo-to-koo-ya’ as ‘Long and Slender,’ and applies it to what he calls the Ribbon Fall. His name is better than his interpretation.” (Bunnell: Discovery of the Yosemite, 1880, p. 215.)

The total drop of the falls when full is 1612 feet, probably the longest in the world. (Figures from U.S.G.S. Map of Yosemite Valley, 1907, 1922, 1:24,000.)
Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

One of the best spots to see the pairing [of waterfalls] effect is at the Bridalveil Fall overlook... If you stare up at Bridalveil, then do an about-face and turn your back to it, you're looking directly at 1,612' Ribbon Fall, a tall delicate, silver thread of a waterfall. It seems impossibly long and narrow, just like its name. From Ann Marie Brown's book California Waterfalls

From GNIS:

In Yosemite National Park, on Ribbon Creek and the north wall of Yosemite Valley, 1.6 km (1 mi) north of Merced River.
Also called:

Lung-oo-too-koo-yah: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988.
Lung-yo-to-co-ya: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988.
Lungyotuckoya: Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1949.
Pigeon Creek Fall: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988.
Ribbon Falls: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988.
The Ribbon Fall: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988.
Virgin Tears Fall: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988.
Virgin's Tear : Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1949.

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