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 . her 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 Yosemite guide-book : a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California . her 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. The trail passes around its east side, and good camping-gioundcan be found at the upper end in a fine grove of firs and pines. The rocksin the vicinity all exhibit in the most remarkable dcgiee the concentricstructure peculiar to the granite of this region. At the head of theLake is a very conspicuous conical knob of smooth gianite, about 800 feet. THE HIGH SIEKRA. 95 Iiigh, entirely bare of vegetation, and beautifully scored and polished byformer glaciers. The traces of the existence of an immense flow of ice downthe valley now occupied by Lake Tenaya begin here to be very ridges on each side of the trail are worn and polished by glacial actionnearly to their summits, so that travelling really becomes difficult for theanimals on the pass from the valley of the Tenaya into that of the Tuo- Fijr. 10.
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