Yosemite's Stone Ramparts

Yosemite’s stone ramparts look like those of a castle.  The kings of the castle are those who climb the granite walls.  These climbers possess great courage and strength.  They are attentive to all the details of the climb as they feel the sunshine on their face.  They climb to recover lost freedom….to reach beyond the walls.  Some of Yosemite’s granite walls are found decorated with free falling waterfalls or with freedom seeking rock climbers!

“The El Capitan rock is seen through the pine groves pressing forward beyond the general line of the wall in most imposing grandeur. It is 3300 feet high, a plain, severely simple, glacier-sculptured face of granite, the end of one of the most compact and enduring of the mountain ridges, standing there in supreme height and breadth, a type of permanence.

Across the valley from here, above the Bridal Veil, are the picturesque Cathedral Rocks, nearly 2700 feet high, making a noble display of fine yet massive sculpture. They are closely related to El Capitan, having been hewn from the same mountain ridge by the Yosemite glacier when the valley was in process of formation,” wrote naturalist and rock climber John Muir.

Yosemite’s stone ramparts look like those of a castle.  The kings of the castle are those who climb the granite walls of El Capitan and The Three Graces.

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