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August 22, 2024 at 3:00 PM. El Capitan High senior Diego Ultreras has seen a new head football coach in each of his four years in high school. For three straight seasons Ultreras has had to adjust ...
The Gauchos showed grittiness and battled the perennial small-school power, but the Knights (1-1) came up with two defensive stands late to hold onto a 23-13 victory over El Capitan (1-1) at ...
First-year head coach Jordan Irsik talks to the El Capitan High School football team at the end of practice on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. Shawn Jansen/Sjansen@mercedsun-star.com
El Capitan (Spanish: El Capitán) is a peak in Culberson County, Texas, located within Guadalupe Mountains National Park. [2] The 10th-highest peak in Texas at 8,085 ft (2,464 m), El Capitan is part of the Guadalupe Mountains, an exposed portion of a Permian period reef uplifted and exposed by tectonic activity during the late Cretaceous period. [3]
Orla, Texas. Orla is a town in Reeves County, Texas, United States. It lies approximately 38 miles (61 km) north of Pecos. Orla is believed to have two residents and has its own post office, located on U.S. Route 285. [1] The post office was established 26 December 1906, with Joshua D. McAdams as first postmaster.
Geology. El Capitan is composed almost entirely of a pale, coarse-grained granite approximately 100 MYA (million years old). In addition to El Capitan, this granite forms most of the rock features of the western portions of Yosemite Valley. A separate intrusion of igneous rock, the Taft Granite, forms the uppermost portions of the cliff face.
El Capitan High School sophomore guard Madysen Dietz (1) drives to the basket during a game against Merced on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. Dietz says she loves forming bonds with each animal she raises ...
Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls.Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider at 5.13a, the first-ever at that grade), [3] a climb described in The New York Times as "one of the great ...