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 . nt Warren was ascendedby Mr. Wackenreuder, and Mount Conness by Messrs. King and latter was reached by following a moraine which forms, as Mr. Kingremarks, a good graded road all the way round from Soda Springs to thevery foot of the movmtain. The ascent was difficult and somewhat hazardous,the approach to the summit being over a knife-blade ridge, which mightbe trying to the nerves of the xininitiated in mountain climbing. The summitis 1
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 . nt Warren was ascendedby Mr. Wackenreuder, and Mount Conness by Messrs. King and latter was reached by following a moraine which forms, as Mr. Kingremarks, a good graded road all the way round from Soda Springs to thevery foot of the movmtain. The ascent was difficult and somewhat hazardous,the approach to the summit being over a knife-blade ridge, which mightbe trying to the nerves of the xininitiated in mountain climbing. The summitis 12,692 feet above the sea-level, and is of granite, forming great concentric 104 THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK. plates dipping to the west. Of course, the view, like all from the dominantpeaks of this region, is extensive, and gi-and beyond all description. Our party also ascended the Blount Lyell fork, following \ip the valleyof that stream. From near the head of it, the sketch was taken which isreproduced in Plate VIII. and which gives a good idea of the Alpinecharacter of this portion of the SieiTa. The highest point of the group was Fi£. SUMMIT OF MOrXT LYELL. ascended by Messrs. Brewer and Hoffmann; but they were unable to reachthe very summit, which was found to be a sharp and inaccessible pinnacleof granite rising above a field of snow. (See Fig. 13.) By observationstaken at a station estimated to be 150 feet below the top of this Lyell was found to be 13,217 feet high. The ascent was difficult, onaccount of the body of snow which had to be traversed, and which Avassoftened by the sun, so that climbing in it was very laborious. This troublemight have been obviated, however, by camping nearer the summit andascending before the sun had been up long enough to soften the snow. Theculminating peaks of Mo\mt Lyell have a gi-adual slope to the northeast;but to the south and southwest they break off in precipices a thousand feetor more in height. Between these clif
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