Yosemite at Night | A Calm Documentary to Fall Asleep To

The highest waterfall in Yosemite drops 2,425 feet, and at the beginning of October, in most years, it is no more than a trickle. The snow that feeds it is gone, and the cliff stands dark and quiet until the rain and the snow come back. This is one night on the floor of Yosemite Valley, lying in El Capitan Meadow on the first of October, the park's 136th birthday, from the last light on El Capitan until the first sun on the rim. Fifty-two quiet stops, one every fourteen minutes or so: the granite that cooled miles underground about a hundred million years ago, the glaciers and the old lake that made the valley floor, Half Dome, Bridalveil Fall and the moonbows of spring, the climbers asleep on hanging cots on El Capitan, great gray owls, black bears and mule deer, Saturn at opposition, the giant sequoias of the Mariposa Grove, Tuolumne Meadows, Tioga Pass and the glacial polish of the high country, John Muir's first summer and Theodore Roosevelt's nights in the snow, Glacier Point, the Giant Staircase, Mirror Lake, acorn woodpeckers and the water ouzel, and the slow return of the light. Nothing here is frightening and nothing is a warning. Yosemite is told as rock, water, light and measurement. Nobody is in danger, nothing goes wrong, and none of it asks anything of you. Every image is a real photograph, shared openly by photographers, the National Park Service and NASA, and full credits are in the pinned comment. The narration is a synthetic voice, unhurried and soft, over quiet music at a level meant to be slept through. This relaxing documentary is ideal for: Falling asleep to calm nature and geology with soft music Listening to slow, checkable facts at bedtime Gentle nighttime learning for adults Relaxing narration for insomnia and restless nights Drifting off somewhere between moonrise over the granite and the first light In this video: How El Capitan and Half Dome were made, and why the valley floor is flat Yosemite Falls, Bridalveil Fall, moonbows and the February glow of Horsetail Fall The climbers who sleep on hanging cots high on El Capitan Giant sequoias, Tuolumne Meadows, the pika and the high country John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and the planets over the valley Whether you came for Yosemite, for national parks, for calm narration at bedtime, or simply for a quiet voice and the sound of a night going by, this is made to be slept through. Subscribe to Small Hours Documentary for slow, careful documentaries made for sleep. CHAPTERS 0:00 Sunset in Yosemite Valley 2:31 The Last Light on El Capitan 7:18 Seven Miles of Valley 11:57 Half Dome 16:41 Granite That Cooled Underground 21:45 Sheets of Stone 26:39 Lake Yosemite 31:34 The Meadows 36:22 Moonrise 41:02 Rainbows by Moonlight 45:39 Lights on the Wall 50:25 The Great Gray Owl 55:18 Mule Deer 1:00:14 The Ringtail 1:05:12 More Than Five Hundred Giants 1:09:55 Bark a Foot and a Half Thick 1:14:42 Tuolumne Meadows 1:19:30 Polished by Ice 1:24:16 The Dome and the Spire 1:29:13 The Snowy Range 1:34:06 Three Nights in May, Nineteen Oh Three 1:38:49 The Giant Staircase 1:43:48 Jupiter and Mars 1:48:45 Acorn Woodpeckers 1:53:46 The Water Ouzel 1:58:53 Alpenglow on Half Dome 2:03:43 The Valley Wakes