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 . CATIIEDIIAL TEAK, FROJI TUOLUJINE VALLEY. resemblance of the wholo to a (Jotliic cathedral ; liut the majesty of its formand its vast dimensions are such, that any work of human hands woidd sinkinto insignificance beside it. Its summit is at least 2,500 feet above thesurrounding plateau, and about 11,000 feet above the sea-level. From theTuolumne River Valley, on the east, the Cathedial Peak presents a mostattractive appearance ; but has quite lost t
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 . CATIIEDIIAL TEAK, FROJI TUOLUJINE VALLEY. resemblance of the wholo to a (Jotliic cathedral ; liut the majesty of its formand its vast dimensions are such, that any work of human hands woidd sinkinto insignificance beside it. Its summit is at least 2,500 feet above thesurrounding plateau, and about 11,000 feet above the sea-level. From theTuolumne River Valley, on the east, the Cathedial Peak presents a mostattractive appearance ; but has quite lost the peculiar resemblance which wasso conspicuous on the other side. (See Fig. 11 and Plate V.). * ^^-^^^^t^^^^ - THE HIGH SIERRA. 97 The valley of the Tuolumne, into which the Mono trail now descends (secmap), is one of the most picturesque and delightful in the High at an elevation of between 8,000 and 9,000 feet above the sea-level,surrounded by noble ranges and fantastically shaped peaks which rise from3,000 to 4,000 feet higher, and from which the snow never entirely dis-appears, traversed by a clear raj)id river, along which meadows of carices andclumps of pines and firs alternate, the effect of the whole is indeed mostsuperb. The main portion of the valley is about four miles long, and fromhalf to a third of a mile wide. At its upper end it forks, the Mono trailtaking the left-hand branch, or that which comes down from Mount Dana,while the right-hand fork, or that which enters from the southeast, is theone heading on the north side of Mount Lyell (see map), about eight milesabove the junction of the two branches. Soda Springs, on the north side ofthe Tuolum
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