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Sketch of Yosemite National Park and an Account of the Origin of the Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Valleys
SKETCH OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE YOSEMITE AND HETCH HETCHY VALLEYS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 1912 This publication may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington. I). C, for LO cents. 2 SKETCH OP YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK AND ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE YOSEMITE AND HETCH HETCHY VALLEYS. By F. E. MATTHES, U. S. Geological Surrey. INTRODUCTION. Many people believe that the Yosemite National Park consists principally of the Yosemite Valley and its bordering heights. The name of the park, indeed, would seem to justify that belief, yet noth ing could be further from the truth. The Yosemite Valley, though by far the grandest feature of the region, occupies only a small part of the tract. The famous valley measures but a scant 7 miles in length; the park, on the other hand, comprises no less than 1,124 square miles, an area slightly larger than the State of Rhode Island, or about one-fourth as large as Connecticut. Within this area lie scores of lofty peaks and noble mountains, as well as many beautiful valleys and profound canyons; among others, the Iletch Hetchy Valley and the Tuolumne Canyon, each scarcely less wonderful than the Yosemite Valley itself. Here also are foaming rivers and cool, swift trout brooks; countless emerald lakes that reflect the granite peaks about them; and vast stretches of stately forest, in which many of the famous giant trees of California still survive. The Yosemite National Park lies near the crest of the great alpine range of California, the Sierra Nevada. -
Investigating the El Capitan Rock Avalanche
BY GREG STOCK INVESTIGATING THE EL CapITAN ROCK AVALANCHE t 2:25 on the morning of March 26, 1872, one of avalanche, an especially large rockfall or rockslide that the largest earthquakes recorded in California extends far beyond the cliff where it originated. Most Ahistory struck along the Owens Valley fault near Yosemite Valley rockfall debris accumulates at the base the town of Lone Pine just east of the Sierra Nevada. The of the cliffs, forming a wedge-shaped deposit of talus. earthquake leveled most buildings in Lone Pine and sur- Occasionally, however, debris from a rock avalanche will rounding settlements, and killed 23 people. Although extend out much farther across the valley floor. seismographs weren’t yet available, the earthquake is esti- Geologist Gerald Wieczorek of the U.S. Geological mated to have been about a magnitude 7.5. Shock waves Survey and colleagues have identified at least five rock from the tembler radiated out across the Sierra Nevada. avalanche deposits in Yosemite Valley. The largest of these On that fateful morning, John Muir was sleeping in occurred in Tenaya Canyon, at the site of present-day a cabin near Black’s Hotel on the south side of Yosemite Mirror Lake. Sometime in the past, a rock formation on Valley, near present-day Swinging Bridge. The earth- the north wall of the canyon just east of and probably quake shook the naturalist out of bed. Realizing what similar in size to Washington Column collapsed into was happening, Muir bolted outside, feeling “both glad Tenaya Canyon. The rock debris piled up against the and frightened” and shouting “A noble earthquake!” He south canyon wall to a depth of over 100 feet. -
SALES • SERVICE • SUPPLIES 137 East Line Street
the PHOTO: BILLY CALHOUN IV PHOTO: BILLY Westin Kinney, Lamont Peters, Jess Harmon and Stu Need get some News,sheet Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra swings in during the 13th Annual Lakanuki Fall Classic at Sierra Star Golf Course on Tuesday, September 27. Saturday, October 1, 2016 FREE Vol. 14, No. 40 NEUBACHER “RETIRES” THE JUNE LAKE BIKE GANG AMID ALLEGATIONS Yosemite Superintendent will step down By Rea ational Park Service staff following allegations spokesperson Andrew of harassment and other NMunoz confirmed misconduct under his leader- on Thursday, September 29 ship for almost seven years. that Yosemite National Park Last week, a congressional Superintendent Don Neu- oversight committee heard bacher is retiring, following from at least 18 Yosemite allegations that he allowed employees, some of whom harassment to occur under singled out Neubacher for his leadership and created a intimidating those who com- “toxic” work environment. plained about mistreatment. Neubacher publicly apolo- Employees at other major gized on Sunday, September national parks, such as the 25 to Yosemite National Park see NEUBACHER, page 8 A HIGH WIRE ACT PHOTO: REA Cody Peake, 6, Grace Gain, 8, Georgia Fogg, 4, and Grimm Gain, 5, keep it real at June Lake Brewing’s Shake Shake Luau on Saturday, September 24. For more photos, see p. 11. LOVE THE WILD SIERRA? THANK GENNY SMITH 93-year-old Smith was instrumental in derailing Trans-Sierra Highway By Giles t 93 years old, Genny Eastern Sierra.” and then they just go back to Smith has been hiking “I and others used to come the same place over and over Aand skiing out of Mam- up here all the time to ask again,” said Smith, implying moth Lakes since she first Genny for advice about that would just be terribly visited with the Bakersfield politics and change,” said boring. -
BEDROCK GEOLOGY of the YOSEMITE VALLEY AREA YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA Prepared by N
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR TO ACCOMPANY MAP I-1639 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE YOSEMITE VALLEY AREA YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA Prepared by N. King Huber and Julie A. Roller From the writings of Frank C. Calkins and other sources PREFACE INTRODUCTION Frank Calkins' work in Yosemite was preceded by Yosemite Valley, one of the world's great natural works Henry W. Turner, also of the U.S. Geological Survey, of rock sculpture, is carved into the west slope of the who began mapping the Yosemite and Mount Lyell 30- Sierra Nevada. Immense cliffs, domes, and waterfalls minute quadrangles in 1897 and laid the foundation that tower over forest, meadows, and a meandering river, Calkins' work was built on. Although Turner never creating one of the most scenic natural landscapes in completed this sizable assignment, he recognized the North America (fig. 1). In Yosemite Valley and the differing types of plutonic rocks and, for example, named adjoining uplands, the forces of erosion have exposed, the El Capitan Granite. with exceptional clarity, a highly complex assemblage of Calkins mapped the valley and adjacent areas of granitic rocks. The accompanying geologic map shows the Yosemite National Park during the period 1913 through distribution of some of the different rocks that make up 1916, at the same time that Francois Matthes was this assemblage. This pamphlet briefly describes those studying the glacial geology of Yosemite. Calkins rocks and discusses how they differ, both in composition summarized the bedrock geology of part of Yosemite in and structure, and the role they played in the evolution the appendix of Matthes' classic volume "Geologic History of the valley. -
Yosemite Valley
SELF-GUIDING AUTOqJ TOUR. YOSEMITE VALLEY Tunnel View Special Number YOSEMITE NATURE NOTES January, 1942 Yosemite Nature Notes THE MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE YOSEMITE NATURALIST DEPARTMENT AND THE YOSEMITE NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION VOL. lIXI IANUARY, 1942 NO. I SELF-GUIDING AUTO TOUR OF YOSEMITE VALLEY M. E. Beatty and C. A. Harwell This sell-guiding auto tour has GOVERNMENT CENTER been arranged for the visitor who TO INDIAN CAVES ants to discover and visit the scen- ic and historic points of interest in 12.0 miles) Yosemite Valley . It is a complete circle tour of the valley floor, a total Government Center, our starting distance of around 22 miles, and will point, is made up of the Yosemite require at least two hours. Museum, National Park Service Ad- We will first visit the upper or ministration Building, Post Office, eastern end of Yosemite Valley. photographic and art studios and Principal stopping points will be In- the Rangers Club . The Museum dims Caves, Mirror Lake, Happy is a key to the park . We will do well Isles, Stoneman Meadow, Camp to spend some time studying its well Curry and the Old Village . planned exhibits before our trip to 2 YOSEMITE NATURE NOTES learn what to look for; and again at a cost of over a million dollars. Its the close of our tour to review and architecture is of rare beauty. fix what we have learned and to Leaving the hotel grounds we have questions answered that have torn arisen south along the open meadow to the . next intersection where we turn left. -
Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Rock Falls in Yosemite Valley, California by Gerald F. Wieczorek1, James B. Sn
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROCK FALLS IN YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA BY GERALD F. WIECZOREK1, JAMES B. SNYDER2, CHRISTOPHER S. ALGER3, AND KATHLEEN A. ISAACSON4 Open-File Report 92-387 This work was done with the cooperation and assistance of the National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, California. This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards (or with the North American Stratigraphic Code). Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government 'USGS, Reston, VA 22092, 2NPS, Yosemite National Park, CA, 95389, 3McLaren/Hart, Alameda, CA 94501, 4Levine Fricke, Inc., Emeryville, CA 94608 Reston, Virginia December 31, 1992 CONTENTS Page Abstract ............................................... 1 Introduction .............................................. 1 Geologic History ........................................... 2 Methods of Investigation ..................................... 5 Inventory of historical slope movements ........................ 5 Location ............................................ 5 Time of occurrence .......:............................ 7 Size ............................................... 8 Triggering mechanisms ................................. 9 Types of slope movement ................................ 11 Debris flows ...................................... 11 Debris slides ...................................... 12 Rock slides ...................................... -
Ahwahnee Village
Next: Introduction Ahwahnee Village • Introduction • Plant Use: • Southern Sierra Miwok Sounds • Manzanita • History • Spicebush • Ahwahnee and Yosemite • Mock Orange • Sharing History and Culture • Black Oak • Acorn Granary • Mistletoe • Pounding Rock • Creek Dogwood • Chief’s House • Incense Cedar • Ceremonial Roundhouse • Canyon Live Oak • Bark House • California Buckeye • Sweathouse • References • Miwok Cabin Preface Information for this web exhibit has been gathered from many sources. They are acknowledged in text or the references section. Photographs not credited were taken by me. I’d like to thank the Native Americans and historians that preserved the stories here, that made the Ahwahnee village exhibit possible. Isabelle Howard Jimenez, who died in 1996, translated the exhibit signs into Miwok. —Dan Anderson, July 2005 Photographs copyright # 2005 by Dan E. Anderson. All rights reserved. Next: Introduction Introduction Welcome — h##k#ko (heekeko) (Southern Miwok) Map of Indian village exhibit “Ahwahnee” The Miwok Village of Ahwahnee is located behind the Visitor Center and Yosemite Museum buildings in Yosemite Village, Yosemite Valley. A trail takes you through a re-constructed Yosemite Indian village of the 1870s. The largest Miwok village in Yosemite Valley, the village of Ahwahnee, was once in this area, just to the north of here. About 200-300 people lived in the village in Winter, then would spread out to camp sites in the summer. Signs along the path will introduce you to the structures in the village and the plants used by Native people. Southern Sierra Miwok Sounds Sierra Miwok is not a written language. The written alphabets used are phonetic and non-standard. The alphabet used on the interpretative signs is the same as in The Miwok in Yosemite: Southern Miwok Life, History, and Language in the Yosemite Region (Yosemite: Yosemite Association, 1996), by Craig D. -
L Cujjjuyzy^^ Yosemite NATIONAL PARK
YOSEMITIE N A T I O N A Ly^ PARK l cujjjuyzy^^ Yosemite NATIONAL PARK CALIFORNIA OPEN ALL YEAR Contents Hetch Hetchy Dam and Lake 13 El Capitan Cover Winter Sports 13 What To Do and See in Yosemite.... 4 Fishing 14 Formation of Yosemite Valley 8 Plant and Animal Life 15 Waterfalls 8 Free Naturalist Service 15 Glacier Point and the Rim of Yosemite Administration 19 Valley 9 Information Bureau 19 Sentinel Dome 9 Travel Information 20 The Big Trees 11 Accommodations 21 Wawona . 12 Miscellaneous Services 26 Tuolumne Meadows 13 Publications for Sale at Museum .... 30 Events OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE 1891 Capt. A. E. Wood, first park superintendent, arrived with Federal troops to administer park, May 17. Headquarters at Wawona. 1899 Camp Curry established. 1851 Mariposa Batallion discovered Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point, March 25. 19°° Holmes brothers, of San Jose, drove first automobile (a Stanley Steamer) into Yosemite over the Wawona Road. 1855 J. M. Hutchings organized first party of sightseers to enter Yosemite Valley. I906 Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove re-ceded to United States. 1856 "Lower Hotel," first permanent structure, built by Walworth and Hite at Superintendent's headquarters (Maj. H. C. Benson, superintendent) base of Sentinel Rock. moved to Yosemite Valley. 1858 Cedar Cottage built. 1913 Automobiles admitted to Yosemite Valley. 1804 Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Trees set aside as park by Congress, 1914 Civilian employees replaced military in administration of park. to be administered by State of California. I9I9 First airplane landed in Yosemite Valley, May 27, Lt. J. S. Krull, pilot, 1868 John Muir made his first trip to Yosemite. -
A Historical Geography of Yosemite Valley Climbing Landscapes J
Journal of Historical Geography 32 (2006) 190e219 www.elsevier.com/locate/jhg Mapping adventure: a historical geography of Yosemite Valley climbing landscapes J. Taylor Departments of History and Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6 Abstract Climbing guidebooks are invaluable resources for examining how modern recreation has inscribed val- ues onto public landscapes. The history of rock climbing in Yosemite Valley is particularly instructive be- cause it was a principal location for modern rock climbing and influenced modern environmental thought. Examining climbing guidebooks for Yosemite Valley also reveals a cultural shift during the 1960s in how climbers represented themselves and their deeds. New trends in route descriptions and naming practices re- flected shifts in social mores, environmental conditions, and sporting behavior. Guidebooks produced since 1970 suggest a coarsening progression in sport and an altered community demography, yet these texts also illustrate how change reinforced climbing’s values and customs. Ó 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Yosemite; Guidebooks; History; Gender; Recreation In August 1933 a young San Francisco lawyer named Peter Starr hiked into the Sierra Nevada wilderness and disappeared. A huge search ensued, complete with elite climbing teams and the first ever use of airplanes in a Sierra search and rescue. Three weeks later another climber found Starr’s body on a ledge of the steep, previously unclimbed northeastern face of Michael Minaret. Peter Starr’s death rocked genteel California. News reports and polite society obsessed about him, but at the service Francis Farquhar, president of the Sierra Club, transformed Starr from victim to hero. -
Yosemite Guide Yosemite Guide September 30, 2020 - December 1, 2020 @Yosemitenps
Yosemite Guide Yosemite Guide September 30, 2020 - December 1, 2020 @YosemiteNPS UPDATE Due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19, visitor services and access may be affected. Check local resources and area signage in light of changing public health requirements related to COVID-19. For details, visit www. nps.gov/yose. We encourage you to follow CDC guidance to reduce the spread of COVID-19. • Practice social distancing by maintaining 6 feet of distance between you and others. • Wear a face covering when social distancing cannot be maintained. • Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. • Cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze. • Most importantly, stay home if you feel sick. • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. Celebrate, enjoy, and learn more about Yosemite’s undeveloped and natural wilderness areas on page 10. Photo by Ryan Alonzo Experience Your America Yosemite National Park Yosemite Guide September 30, 2020 - December 1, 2020 Experience Your America Yosemite National Park Yosemite Guide September 30, 2020 - December 1, 2020 Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System Year-round Route: Yosemite Valley Valley Shuttle Valley Visitor Center Upper Map Campground Yosemite Fall Yosemite Parking Hetch Village Hetchy Lower Picnic Area Yosemite Tuolumne The Ansel Fall Adams l Medical Church Bowl Restroom Meadows i Gallery ra Clinic Picnic Area l T al F Walk-In e t i Campground m Yosemite e The Ahwahnee os Mirror Valley r Y Area in inset: Uppe Lake Yosemite Valley seasonal Map Yosemite North Camp 4 -
YOSEMITE National Park
YOSEMITE National Park UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION N AT IONAL PARK. SERIES Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley. The Half Dome in background Pa£e two An Appreciation of Yosemite NationalPark By HARRIET MONROE, Editor of "Poetry, a Magazine of Verse" Written Especially for the United Slates Railroad Administration WICE—and each time through an entire July—I have tramped with the California Sierra Club through the grandest areas of the Yosemite National Park. I have camped in the Valley, in Tuolumne Meadows, and in the lost Hetch-Hetchy—sleeping to the sound of rushing waters with mountains towering around me. I have crossed Vogelsang Pass when the mountain hemlocks were just slipping off their wet mantles of snow; I have descended the formidable Tuolumne Canyon past the third fall; and under Mount Dana I have looked down over the red rocks of Bloody Canyon to Lake Mono, lying incredibly blue among the pink and lilac craters of dead volcanoes. My memories of this prismatically shattered earth are sharp in details of beauty, but all of them rise against white granite and falling waters. Never anywhere else can there be mountains so silver-white—El Capitan shouldering the sky, Cloud's Rest and the two great Domes giving back the sun, and Ritter, Lyell and Dana, fierce and jagged, guarding their inscrutable heights. And through the crevices of this gleaming granite run everywhere crystal streams—streams mad with joy that foam as they fly, and shout as they take enormous leaps over stark precipices. All kinds of falling waters—the delicate cascades of Illilouette; the wind-blown tulle of Bridal Veil; Nevada, lacy, white-fingered, taking her 600-foot leap like a step in a dance; Vernal, broad-shouldered, strong-bodied, massive, as he jumps like an athlete; and, most wonder ful of all, Yosemite, that Upper Yosemite Fall whose leap is 1,500 feet — a tall white living figure against the formidable cliff, a figure moving and breathing, tossing the spray from his eyes, shining tall and straight there like a young Greek god. -
Bedrock Geologic Map of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California
: I / DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY L, BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP OF YOSEMITE VALLEY, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA By Frank C. Calkins and others MISCELLANEOUS N,IVESTIGATONS SERIES Published by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1985 G DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR TO ACCOMPAI{Y MAP I-1639 U.S, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE YOSEMITE VALLEY AREA YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA Prepared by N. King Huber and Julte A. Roller From the wrttlngs of Frank C. Calklns and other sources PREFACE INTRODUCTION Frank Calkins' work in Yosemite was preceded by Yosemite Valley, one of the world's great natural works Henry W. Tumer, also of the U.S. Geological Survey, of rock sculpfure, is carved into the west slope of the who began mapping the Yosemite and Mount Lyell 30- Siena Nevada. Immense cliffs, domes, and waterfalls minute quadrangles in 1897 and laid the foundation that tower over forest, meadows, and a meandering river, Calkins' work was built on. Although Tumer never creating one of the most scenic nafural landscapes in completed this sizable assignment, he recognized the North America (fig. 1). In Yosemite Valley and the differing types oI plutonic rocks and, for example, named adloining uplands, the forces of erosion have exposed, the El Capitan Granite. with exceptional clarity, a highly complex assemblage of Calkins mapped the valley and adjacent areas of granitic rocks. The accompanying geologc map shows the Yosemite National Park during the period 1913 through distibution of some of the different rocks that make up 1916, at the same time that Francois Matthes was this assemblage.