~Yosemite Trails~ 46 1 Yosemite to Glacier Point via Vernal and Nevada Falls and return via the Short Trail 47 2 Yosemite to Glacier Point via the Short Trail and return via Vernal and Nevada Falls 52 3 Yosemite to North Dome via Yosemite Falls and return via Mirror Lake 56 4 Yosemite to North Dome via Mirror Lake and return via Yosemite Falls 60 5 Yosemite to Tenaya Lake via Clouds Rest and Forsyth Pass and return via Mirror Lake 63 6 Yosemite to Tenaya Lake via Mirror Lake and return via Forsyth Pass and Clouds Rest 67 7 Yosemite to Lake Merced 70 8 Yosemite to Tuolumne Meadows via Sunrise Trail 72 9 Yosemite to Eagle Peak, El Capitan and Gentry 75 10 Yosemite to Ten Lakes via Yosemite Creek 76 11 Yosemite to Hetch Hetchy via Yosemite Creek, Harden Lake, and Smith Meadow 79 12 Yosemite to Sierra Point 81 13 Little Yosemite 81 14 Half Dome 83 15 Yosemite to Glacier Point via the Ledge Trail 85 16 Glacier Point to Sentinel Dome 86 17 Glacier Point to Fort Monroe via Pohono Trail 87 18 Fort Monroe to Glacier Point via Pohono Trail 88 19 Glacier Point to Wawona via Alder Creek Trail 90 20 Glacier Point to Ostrander Lake 92 21 Glacier Point to Chilnualna Falls or Johnson Lake via the Buck Camp Trail 93 22 Glacier Point to Johnson Lake via Buena Vista Trail 94 23 Yosemite or Glacier Point to Moraine Meadows via Merced Pass Trail 96 24 Wawona Road to El Portal via the Sunset Trail 97 25 Wawona Road to El Portal via the Hennessy Trail 98 THE YOSEMITE REGION "By far the grandest of the western ranges is the Sierra Nevada, a long and massive uplift lying between the arid deserts of the Great Basin and the Californian exuberance of grain-fields and orchards; its eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain; the western, a long, dry sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately forests; its crest a line of sharp, snowy peaks springing into the sky and catching the _alpenglow_ long after the sun has set for all the rest of America."[1] [1] From "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada," by Charles King.