The State - News from Feb. 19, 1989

California 120 leading into Yosemite Valley has been reopened after being closed 2 1/2 days by a rock slide. A 60-yard section of the road was clogged by huge rocks in a slide park officials blamed on the alternate freezing and thawing of recent weeks. Even though five boulders as large as automobiles crashed down the mountain onto the pavement, no injuries were reported. Two other major routes to Yosemite, California 41 and 140, remained open. California 120, which enters the park from the Modesto area via Tuolumne County, reopened Friday just in time for throngs heading to Yosemite for the three-day President’s Day weekend.