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  2. Hetch Hetchy - Wikipedia

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    Hetch Hetchy is a valley, ... "Bay Crossing Reach of the Bay Division Pipelines Nos. 1 and 2, Fremont, Alameda County, CA", 50 photos, 81 data pages, ...

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  4. One of the best hikes in Yosemite is in this hidden valley of ...

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    Less crowded than Yosemite Valley, whose roads have been choked with visitors, Hetch Hetchy Valley is a half-forgotten realm filled with granite walls, tall falls and wildflowers.

  5. Smith Peak - Wikipedia

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    Smith Peak, in Yosemite National Park in the United States, overlooks the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and provides grand vistas of the Hetch Hetchy Valley and surrounding wilderness. It is named for a sheep owner who claimed to own the Hetch Hetchy Valley and used it as a summer pasture.

  6. Lake Eleanor - Wikipedia

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    The current lake was formed in 1918 by damming Eleanor Creek as part of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir system, [2] constructed to supply water and power to the city of San Francisco. The original smaller, natural lake was also named "Eleanor" [2] after the daughter of Josiah Whitney, leader of the California Geological Survey in the 1860s.

  7. O'Shaughnessy Dam (California) - Wikipedia

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    O'Shaughnessy Dam is a 430-foot-high (131 m) concrete arch-gravity dam in Tuolumne County, California, United States.It impounds the Tuolumne River, forming the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir at the lower end of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, about 160 miles (260 km) east of San Francisco. [6]

  8. Tueeulala Falls - Wikipedia

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    Tueeulala Falls is located on the north side of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. At roughly 880 feet it is the smaller of two large waterfalls that spill into Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the other being Wapama Falls. It is, however, the larger of the two in terms of greatest free-fall distance, as Wapama is split into two falls.

  9. Falls Creek (California) - Wikipedia

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    Falls Creek, also known as the Falls River, [2] is a tributary of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California, United States.The creek begins at the northern boundary of the national park and flows 24 miles (39 km) [1] to empty into the Tuolumne at Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, dropping over two well-known waterfalls.