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The longest glacier in the Yosemite area ran down the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River for 60 miles (95 km), passing well beyond Hetch Hetchy Valley. Merced Glacier flowed out of Yosemite Valley and into the Merced River Gorge. Lee Vining Glacier carved Lee Vining Canyon and emptied into Lake Russell (the much enlarged ice age version of Mono ...
The Geologic Story of Yosemite Valley by N. King Huber (USGS, 1987) authoritative and up-to-date summary of Yosemite's geology; Origin of Yosemite Valley, Chapter 4, "Glaciers of California", by Bill Guyton; Historic Yosemite Indian Chiefs – with photos; Daily updating time-lapse movies of Yosemite Valley
The view from Glacier Point, left to right: Tenaya Canyon, Half Dome, Liberty Cap, Little Yosemite Valley, Vernal Fall and Nevada Fall. Glacier Point is a viewpoint above Yosemite Valley in the U.S. state of California. It is located on the south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of 7,214 feet (2,199 m), 3,200 feet (980 m) above Curry ...
Highest point; Elevation: 10,916 ft (3,327 m) NAVD 88 [1] Prominence: 919 ft (280 m) [1] Listing: SPS Mountaineers peak [2]: Coordinates: 3]: Geography; Location: Yosemite National Park, California, U.S.: Parent range: Cathedral Range, Sierra Nevada: Topo map: USGS Tenaya Lake: Geology; Rock age: Cretaceous: Mountain type: Granite arête: Climbing; First ascent: 1869 by John Muir [4]: Easiest ...
Chinquapin was built as a junction of the Old Glacier Point Road, which was built in 1882. Chinquapin Ranger Station. Previously it was a bridle trail to Glacier Point (the current Glacier Point Road, which starts immediately north of the old road was built in 1940). [2] On an 1896 U.S. Cavalry map it is marked as "Chinquapin Station" [3]
The Glacier Point Trailside Museum was one of the first projects in Yosemite National Park by Herbert Maier in what would become the National Park Service Rustic style. Located at Glacier Point, it was funded by Laura Spelman Rockefeller's estate as a project for the Yosemite Museum. It was the first "trailside museum" in the National Park ...
Four Mile Trail is a moderate to strenuous trail leading from Yosemite Valley to Glacier Point. The trail begins at the valley floor west of the Swinging Bridge recreation area, and climbs the south side 4.8 miles (7.7 km) up to Glacier Point, an elevation change of 3,200 feet (1,000 m).
Stately Pleasure Dome - Hermaphrodite Flake. In Tuolumne, rock climbing is popular, [40] [41] [42] and there are many granite domes, there and elsewhere in Yosemite. [43]In contrast to the big walls of Yosemite Valley, climbing at Tuolumne generally consists of short- to medium-length routes on eleven major domes and several minor ones; see Granite Domes of Yosemite National Park.