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The Hetch Hetchy Valley began as a V-shaped river canyon cut out by the ancestral Tuolumne River. About one million years ago, the extensive Sherwin glaciation widened, deepened and straightened river valleys along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, including Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley, and Kings Canyon farther to the south. [12]
Tioga Pass Entrance Station. December 14, 1978 ... Hetch Hetchy Railroad Engine No.6: Hetch Hetchy Railroad Engine No.6. January 30, 1978 : CA 140: El Portal ...
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.
The line extended from its western terminus at Hetch Hetchy Junction (a junction with the Sierra Railroad at Sierra milepost 26, 1,000 feet (300 m) elevation at ), topping out at Poopenaut Pass at 5,064 feet (1,544 m) elevation (), to its eastern terminus at about 3,800 feet (1,200 m) elevation on the rim of the Hetch Hetchy Valley (est ...
The route runs through Niles Canyon, parallel to the Niles Canyon Railway, Highway 84, and the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct. The line passes through a 0.75-mile (1.21 km) long tunnel which cuts off one of the canyon's horseshoes. This tunnel was modified from its original configuration to accommodate intermodal double-stack freight trains.
Trail hike [3] 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.
Hetch Hetchy Dome is a granite dome, in the Hetch Hetchy area of Yosemite National Park. On Hetch Hetchy Dome's particulars. Aside from being aside Hetch Hetchy ...
It is 80 feet (24 m) wide and runs east to west for 2.7 miles (4.3 km) above the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, linking Orchard Gardens Park on Sunnyvale's west side and Fairwood Park, located on the Sunnyvale-Santa Clara border.