History of the Firefall in Yosemite

At 9:00 each evening in Camp Curry, the crowd which had gathered for the nightly campfire program, would fall silent. A man would call out to the top of Glacier Point "Let the Fire Fall!", and a faint reply could be heard from the top of the mountain. Then a great bonfire of red fir bark would be pushed evenly over the edge of the cliff, appearing to the onlookers below as a glowing waterfall of sparks and fire.

The spectacle was the Yosemite Firefall, a nightly tradition in Yosemite National Park for some 88 years. 

When we were trying to come up with a clever name for our new coffee roasting adventure we reached out to the town and had a contest to see who could come up with the best name.  One of our very best customers Bunny Rose (owner of away in the woods) came up with the brilliant name of Firefall.  So as they say the rest is history...