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HALF DOME IN WINTER
Photograph by J.V. Lloyd
THE EVERLASTING SNOWS
 ASCENDING MOUNT LYELL Photograph by W.L. Huber |
SUMMITS of perpetual snow are, for most Americans, a new association with Yosemite. But the region's very origin was that Sierra whose crest peaks on the park's eastern boundary still shelter in shrunken old age the once all-powerful glaciers.
Excelsior, Conness, Dana, Kuna, Blacktop, Lyell, Long—from the companionship of these great peaks descended the ice pack of old and descend to-day the sparkling waters of the Tuolumne and the Merced.
From their great summits the climber beholds a sublime wilderness of crowded, towering mountains, a contrast to the silent, uplifting valley as striking as mind can conceive. Everlasting snows fill the hollows between the peaks and spatter their jagged granite sides. The glaciers feed innumerable small lakes.
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