4 Yosemite to North Dome via Mirror Lake and return via Yosemite Falls 60 5 Yosemite to Tenaya Lake via Clouds Rest and Forsyth Pass and return via Mirror Lake 63 6 Yosemite to Tenaya Lake via Mirror Lake and return via Forsyth Pass and Clouds Rest 67 7 Yosemite to Lake Merced 70 8 Yosemite to Tuolumne Meadows via Sunrise Trail 72 9 Yosemite to Eagle Peak, El Capitan and Gentry 75 10 Yosemite to Ten Lakes via Yosemite Creek 76 11 Yosemite to Hetch Hetchy via Yosemite Creek, Harden Lake, and Smith Meadow 79 12 Yosemite to Sierra Point 81 13 Little Yosemite 81 14 Half Dome 83 15 Yosemite to Glacier Point via the Ledge Trail 85 16 Glacier Point to Sentinel Dome 86 17 Glacier Point to Fort Monroe via Pohono Trail 87 18 Fort Monroe to Glacier Point via Pohono Trail 88 19 Glacier Point to Wawona via Alder Creek Trail 90 20 Glacier Point to Ostrander Lake 92 21 Glacier Point to Chilnualna Falls or Johnson Lake via the Buck Camp Trail 93 22 Glacier Point to Johnson Lake via Buena Vista Trail 94 23 Yosemite or Glacier Point to Moraine Meadows via Merced Pass Trail 96 24 Wawona Road to El Portal via the Sunset Trail 97 25 Wawona Road to El Portal via the Hennessy Trail 98

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THE YOSEMITE REGION

"By far the grandest of the western ranges is the Sierra Nevada, a long and massive uplift lying between the arid deserts of the Great Basin and the Californian exuberance of grain-fields and orchards; its eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain; the western, a long, dry sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately forests; its crest a line of sharp, snowy peaks springing into the sky and catching the alpenglow long after the sun has set for all the rest of America."[1]

About midway between the north and south ends of this "Snowy Range" and extending from the ragged summits of its eastern edge to the semi-arid foothills at the west, lies Yosemite National Park, 1125 square miles of incomparable scenic beauty.

Yosemite Valley, contrary to most peoples' preconceived idea, lies fully 25 miles west of the Sierra crest. It is countersunk 4000 feet into the granite of the gently inclined plateau, which above its rim averages from 7000 to 8000 feet in elevation. The characteristics of this region immediately adjacent to Yosemite Valley are different from those of the High Sierra to the past. Very little of it is above the timber-line, as the dominating summits—Mount Hoffman (10,921) at the north, Clouds Rest (9924) at the east, Mount Starr King (9179) at the southeast, and Horse Ridge (9600) at the south—average less than 10,000 feet in altitude. The magnificent forests with which the slopes are clothed are interspersed with perfectly formed granite domes, with meadows and wild-flower gardens, with polished granite pavements, and with innumerable manifestations of Nature which give the trails of the region an ever-changing charm.

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