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  2. Half Dome - Wikipedia

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    The Half Dome Cable Route hike runs from the valley floor to the top of the dome in 8.2 mi (13 km) (via the Mist Trail), with 4,800 ft (1,460 m) of elevation gain. The length and difficulty of the trail used to keep it less crowded than other park trails, but trail traffic grew to as many as 1,000 people a day, and about 50,000 per year, before ...

  3. Liberty Cap (California) - Wikipedia

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    Liberty Cap is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California, United States which lies at the extreme northwestern margin of Little Yosemite Valley. It lies adjacent, to the north of Nevada Fall, on the John Muir Trail. It rises 1,700 feet (520 m) feet from the base of Nevada Fall to a peak elevation of 7,080 ft (2,158 m).

  4. Skyline Drive - Wikipedia

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    Designated VLR. December 4, 2006; July 2, 1997; June 18, 2003 [ 3 ] Skyline Drive is a 105-mile (169 km) National Parkway that runs the entire length of the National Park Service 's Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, generally along the ridge of the mountains. The drive's northern terminus is at an intersection ...

  5. Yosemite’s Half Dome cables are dangerous. Here’s why they ...

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    By 21st-century standards, the row of threaded cables, steel posts and wood planks used by hikers to clamber up and down the final 400 feet of polished granite are dangerous — incredibly so in ...

  6. Timeline of North American telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of North American telegraphy. January 22, 1848 map in New York Herald showing extent of existing and planned North American telegraph lines. At this time, the service area for the United States reached Petersburg, Virginia in the south, Portland, Maine in the northeast, Cleveland, Ohio in the northwest, and as far west as East St ...

  7. Dunant (submarine communications cable) - Wikipedia

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    Dunant (submarine communications cable) Dunant is a private 250 Tbit/s 6,600 kilometre transatlantic communications cable that connects the United States (Virginia Beach) with France (Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez). Named for Henry Dunant, it was announced by Google in 2018 and went live in 2020. [1][2]

  8. Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    E-ZPass. Location. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay between Delmarva and Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia. It opened in 1964, replacing ferries that had operated since the 1930s.

  9. Tunnel View - Wikipedia

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    Tunnel View. Coordinates: 37.71576°N 119.67718°W. El Capitan, Half Dome, and Bridalveil Fall, from Tunnel View. Tunnel View is a scenic viewpoint on California State Route 41 in Yosemite National Park, United States. Visitors have seen and documented the iconic and expansive views of Yosemite Valley from the overlook since its opening in 1933.

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