The Yosemite guide-book : a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California . et thick. The number of distinct peaks, ridges, and tables,visible in that direction, crowded together, is too great to be counted. Thegrand mass of Castle Peak is a prominent and most remarkably pictm-esqueobject. This mountain was thus named by Mr. G. H. Goddaid, about tenyears ago, at which time he ascended, by estimate, to within 1,000 feet of thesummit, and calculated it to be 13,000 feet in elevation above the sea-level.*Messrs. King and Gardne
The Yosemite guide-book : a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California . et thick. The number of distinct peaks, ridges, and tables,visible in that direction, crowded together, is too great to be counted. Thegrand mass of Castle Peak is a prominent and most remarkably pictm-esqueobject. This mountain was thus named by Mr. G. H. Goddaid, about tenyears ago, at which time he ascended, by estimate, to within 1,000 feet of thesummit, and calculated it to be 13,000 feet in elevation above the sea-level.*Messrs. King and Gardner made several attempts to climb it, but did notsucceed in getting to the top, although Mr. Goddai-d thinks it can easilybe reached from the north. By some unaccountable mistake, the nameof Castle Peak was aftenvards transferred to a rounded and not at all * llr. Goddards measurement was made -with an aneroid barometer, and subsequent examinationsalong his route, by tlie Geological Survey, indicate tliat his figures are about 500 feet too Peak is probably between 12,000 and 12,500 feet high. 94 THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK. Fig. VOLCANIC TABLES ON GRANITE. castellated mass about seven miles north of INIount Dana; but we havereturned the name to the peak to which it belongs, and given that of GeneralWarren, the well-known topographer and engineer, to the one on which theentirely unsuitable name of Castle Peak had become fixed. From Porciipine Flat and Mount Hoffmann, we look directly south on tothe fine groixp of mountains lying southeast of the Yosemite and called byus the Obelisk Group, which will be fully described further on in this chap-ter. (See Plate IV.) It is a conspicuous feature in the scenery of theregion about the Yosemite. Lake Tenaya, the head of the branch of the IMciccd of the same name, isthe next point of interest on the trail, and is about six miles east-northeastof Porcupine Flat. It is a beautiful sheet of water, a mile long and halfa mile wide.
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