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	Roadside Geology of Yosemite Valley
		With so many media images of the valley, and, for some a familiarity that results from living nearby, it is sometimes easy to forget what a stunning and unique place Yosemite Valley really is. Nowhere else in the world is there such a combination of vertical cliffs, high waterfalls, and huge granite domes.
		Yosemite Falls is a composite waterfall totaling 746 meters (2,425 ft), with the Upper Fall (435 m; 1,430 ft), Middle Cascades (208 m; 675 ft), and Lower Fall (98 m; 320 ft).
		Yosemite Falls Visitor Area (access now via Trams from Day Parking area; this used to be a parking area, and was remodeled in 2004-05): A short hike from the center provides a spectacular view of lower Yosemite Falls (98 meters; 320 feet).
	virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us /ghayes/roadside.htm (4536 words)

	THE YOSEMITE VALLEY RAILROAD
		Tracing the YVRR - While not much is left of the Yosemite Valley Railroad, here is how to follow the old roadbed from Merced to El Portal and view what does remain, including bridges and station sites.
		Prototype Modeling of the YV - Modeling the Yosemite Valley Railroad on a grand and detailed scale has been a very satisfying hobby for me. Here is more information on my own modeling philosophy and approach.
		Yosemite Models - I now have several CDs available with addition research information on the Yosemite Valley Railroad.
	www.yosemitevalleyrr.com (750 words)

	Geologic Story of Yosemite Valley
		Yosemite Valley itself is deeply carved into the gently sloping western flank of the Sierra Nevada, the longest, the highest, and the grandest single mountain range in the United States outside of Alaska.
		Eastward beyond the narrows at El Capitan and Cathedral Rocks, the valley abruptly widens, and in an embayment on the south are the Cathedral Spires, among the frailest rock shafts in the valley (fig.
		Yosemite Creek is the largest stream flowing into the north side of Yosemite Valley and probably entered the Merced River canyon through a steep side canyon before glaciation.
	wrgis.wr.usgs.gov /docs/parks/yos/topobk.html (4221 words)

	Friends of Yosemite
		Members of the local grassroots group Friends of Yosemite Valley (Friends) are familiar with park documents, regularly monitor park projects, and devote most of their public outreach efforts to countering the "green" spin of the National Park Service.
		Nearly half of the Valley's roads would be realigned, widened and upgraded; and while the plan removes a road from one meadow, it constructs another road along yet another meadow and wetland.
		Preserving Yosemite for future generations must start with a protective plan for the Merced River, the artery that supports the entire life of the watershed, in Yosemite Valley and through the Merced Canyon.
	www.yosemitevalley.org (1276 words)

	Yosemite National Park and Yosemite Valley, California
		At the center is Yosemite Valley, a half-mile deep depression carved by glaciers during the last ice age, which now has soaring 3,000 foot high domes and many powerful waterfalls, including three of the world's highest.
		Elsewhere in Yosemite National Park are vast areas of unspoilt and sometimes inaccessible scenic wilderness, as is the case with Kings Canyon and Sequoia, the other national parks in the Sierras.
		Location: Yosemite National Park is 200 miles east of San Francisco; three state roads (CA 120, CA 140 and CA 41) approach from the west and converge on the lower end of the valley.
	www.americansouthwest.net /california/yosemite/national_park.html (840 words)

	Yosemite Valley at AllExperts
		Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.
		The glaciers widened the valley, but much of its width is in fact due to previous stream erosion and mass wasting along vertical joints in the valley's walls.
		The first non-natives to see Yosemite Valley were probably members of the 1833 Joseph Walker Party, which was the first to cross the Sierra Nevada from east to west.
	en.allexperts.com /e/y/yo/Yosemite_Valley.htm (2803 words)

	Yosemite National Park Vacation - Yosemite Vacation : Yosemite Park
		Yosemiteâs fall foliage this year is some of the best in recent memory.
		Yosemite National Park is always beautiful, but this fall season in particular shines with dense, radiant color.
		Experience Yosemite on your terms, whether that is climbing the cliffs or sipping wine in The Ahwahnee Great Lounge.
	www.yosemitepark.com (255 words)

	Yosemite Valley Plan
		Since that original plan, Yosemite has been studied, prodded, poked and written about by numerous park planners with ideas ranging from massive bridges across the valley to multi-story parking garages in the valley itself, to trains, guide-ways and monorails.
		I believe that this pile of documents demonstrates one of the problems with the Yosemite Valley Plan and EIS – it is simply too much for the average citizen, even one who is directly affected by it – to review and digest.
		In sum, implementation of the Yosemite Valley Plan and EIS will cost $441 million in one-time funds, over $10 million in annual operational funding, and large increases in the number of federal employees serving in the Park.
	www.house.gov /radanovich/press/2001/may01/052701yosemitevalleyplan.htm (1438 words)

	Buena Vista Museum Of Natural History -
		Yosemite Valley is one of the most beautiful and recognizable locations in the world.
		Yosemite Valley was not formed by a single geologic event.
		U-shaped valleys are characteristic glacial features, as are the elevated "hanging" valleys and waterfalls which flow from them.
	www.sharktoothhill.com /about_yosemite.html (453 words)

	Yosemite Valley Map \| Yosemite Map \| Yosemite Valley
		Yosemite Valley lures travelers with the mystique of its rustic gold rush towns, the awe of Yosemite National Park's sprawling landscape and tumbling waterfalls, and the sport of its winding rivers and trails...
		The Yosemite area is like a world of its own, with villages and towns, numerous lakes and waterfalls, residents who live inside the park boundaries, and millions of visitors in the summer months.
		Yosemite Valley is the administrative and informational center for the park and is often the starting point for unforgettable adventures in this magnificent wilderness area.
	www.yosemitepinesrv.com /yosemite-valley-map.htm (907 words)

	Golden Gate Photo - Yosemite Gallery
		Late spring to early summer is typically the peak season for the waterfalls in Yosemite as the warming temperatures begin to melt the winter snow pack.
		Yosemite valley is endowed with some of the tallest waterfalls in North America, thanks to the retreating of glaciers which carved their way into the valley during the Pleistocene Epoch.
		This view of Yosemite Falls, from the meadow in the center of the valley, was taken shortly before midnight during a February full moon.
	www.goldengatephoto.com /westus/yosemite8.html (889 words)

	Friends of Yosemite Valley
		It is difficult to discuss the VIP in its current form since a range of changes to the east valley are predicated on the presumed failure of a regional transit system, and the proposed creation of a parking/transit facility in an undisturbed area of the west valley, a proposal which we oppose.
		Developable space in Yosemite Valley is limited by the extent of the 100-year flood plain, geologic hazards (rock fall zones), meadows and wetlands, sensitive species, and the extent of existing development.
		Many of the members of the Friends of Yosemite Valley were the earliest opponents of the NPS decision to move employee housing next to Camp 4.
	www.bigwalls.net /climb/camp4yosemite/pages/vipcomm.html (3824 words)

	Yosemite Valley Plan: The Story and the Process
		The Final Yosemite Valley Plan/SEIS was prepared based on the guidelines of the National Environmental Policy Act and was preceded by a draft that was released for public comment and review in March 2000.
		Because Yosemite Valley is only 1 mile wide with walls several thousand feet high, both the cliffs and river present potential hazards to people and development.
		Yosemite Lodge motel units that are in the floodplain would be removed and the area restored to natural conditions.
	www.nps.gov /yose/planning/yvp/about.html (1562 words)

	Waterfalls, The Yosemite Valley (1910) by Galen Clark (Site not responding. Last check: )
		THE Bridal Veil Fall, on the south side of the entrance to the Valley, is nine hundred feet in height, and is formed by a creek of the same name, which has its source about fifteen miles to the south in a series of meadows generally known as the Bridal Veil Meadows.
		The Yosemite Falls, about midway up the Valley on the north side, are perhaps in the early part of the season one of the most conspicuous and interesting features of Yosemite, being in plain view from the hotel, public camps, and business center of the Valley.
		This lip or edge, through centuries of erosion, has become a narrow circular depression in the smooth polished granite over which the rushing water plunges in a perpendicular descent of sixteen hundred feet, striking on a solid ledge of granite about one-fourth of a mile back from the lower portion of the cliff.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/the_yosemite_valley/waterfalls.html (1430 words)

	Yosemite Valley Railroad & California RR Commission
		Held, Yosemite Valley Railroad Company and Yosemite Transportation Company directed to establish a joint schedule which will permit of arrival of passengers from the valley at Merced on or before 12.10 p.m.
		The practicability of a daylight schedule is now to be considered, it having been contended by defendant, Yosemite Valley Railroad, that an all daylight schedule was unreasonable and that an all daylight period was inadequate time for a train service from San Francisco to Yosemite.
		It is hereby ordered that the Yosemite Valley Railroad Company and the Yosemite Transportation Company shall establish and maintain a: through route on a schedule that will permit of the arrival of passengers from the Yosemite Valley at Merced on or before the hour of 12.10 p.m.
	www.yosemitevalleyrailroad.com /CRRC.DIR/1915-CRRC-a.html (1413 words)

	Yosemite National Park Camping Page
		There is a 30-day camping limit within Yosemite National Park in any calendar year however, from 01 May to 15 Sep inclusive, the camping limit outside the Valley is limited to a total of not more than 14 days, except for Wawona, which is limited to 7 days.
		Yosemite Concession Services Corporation operates five High Sierra Camps, which are spaced 5.7 to 10 miles apart along a loop trail in Yosemite's beautiful high country.
		Fishing regulations for Yosemite National Park follow those set by the State of California, including the requirement that a valid California sport fishing license must be displayed by all persons 16 years of age and older who are fishing in Yosemite National Park.
	www.yosemite.national-park.com /camping.htm (3718 words)

	Travel Yosemite National Park, California
		In 1851, a battalion of Indian fighters wandered into Yosemite Valley and were stopped in their tracks, dumbstruck, by the view.
		Yosemite Valley is today the centerpiece of California's Yosemite National Park.
		Yosemite's landscape lays bare a kind of time — real geological time — that is simply much bigger than we are.
	www.gorp.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/ca_yosem.htm (332 words)

	Virtual Guidebook to Yosemite National Park
		Valley View on the Merced River, late in the afternoon.
		The bridge at the base of Lower Yosemite falls is wet in spring and crowded all year.
		Galen Clark's grave in the historic cemetery at Yosemite Village.
	virtualguidebooks.com /CentralCalif/Yosemite.html (1635 words)

	Travel Yosemite National Park, California
		In 1851, a battalion of Indian fighters wandered into Yosemite Valley and were stopped in their tracks, dumbstruck, by the view.
		Yosemite Valley is today the centerpiece of California's Yosemite National Park.
		Yosemite's landscape lays bare a kind of time — real geological time — that is simply much bigger than we are.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/ca_yosem.htm (354 words)

	About Yosemite \| Yosemite Valley \| Visit Half Dome, El Capitan
		Retail shops located in Yosemite Valley provide the visitor with many opportunities to take home a memento of their visit without harming the flora and fauna of the valley itself.
		Carved out of the granite by ice age glaciers, Yosemite Valley, the heart of Yosemite National Park, stands as one of the most beautiful and awe inspiring sights in the world.
		Yosemite Valley is a popular attraction for visitors from all corners of the globe.
	www.aboutyosemite.com /yosemite-valley.php (100 words)

	Yosemite National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
		Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States, is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more.
		Yosemite receives most of its precipitation in the months of January, February, and March.
		Spring and fall are transitional months, when warm, sunny days can suddenly become stormy.
	www.nps.gov /yose (151 words)

	Yosemite National Park Sights Page
		Yosemite Valley is world famous for its impressive waterfalls, cliffs, and unusual rock formations.
		Half Dome rises 4,733 feet from the valley floor and at 87 million years old, it is the youngest plutonic rock in the valley.
		The Miwok in Yosemite is a short loop trail that winds through a reconstructed Miwok-Paiute Village in the Indian Village of Ahwahnee.
	www.yosemite.national-park.com /sights.htm (1735 words)

	Yosemite Valley in 2181 images
		Standing in the El Capitan meadows, at the center of Yosemite Valley, a pristine grassland stretches from the banks of the Merced River for about a quarter mile to the forests growing along Northside Drive.
		In the springtime, winter snow melts off the higher mountains around the valley, and cascade off the cliffs in several beautiful and impressive waterfalls: Bridalveil Fall, Ribbon Fall, Sentinel Fall, Staircase Falls and Yosemite Falls.
		The Merced River flows the length of the valley; the Northside Drive parallels it on the north, and Southside Drive parallels it on the south.
	www.untraveledroad.com /Yosemite-Valley.htm (516 words)

	One Day Tour
		Then drive to Yosemite Valley via State Route 140 or SR 41 (depending on whether you are traveling from Mariposa and El Portal, or from Oakhurst).
		At the west end of the Valley, stop at Tunnel View (it's on SR 41) for the classic picture-taking location with its panoramic view of the Valley.
		Depart Yosemite Valley with stops at El Capitan meadow to see rock climbers high up on the side of El Capitan (binoculars are helpful) and at Gates of the Valley, for a beautiful picture of El Capitan reflected in the Merced River.
	www.yosemite-motels.com /itineraries/one_day.htm (432 words)

	Yosemite National Park -- History
		In an attempt to capture a group of Yosemite Indians, the state-sanctioned Mariposa Battalion entered Yosemite Valley on March 27, 1851.
		Nine years later, a group of influential Californians persuaded the federal government to grant Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove to the state as the first public preserve.
		It took a meeting between President Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir (107k gif) in 1903, and the effective lobbying of railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman, however, to have Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove ceded from the state of California's control and included in Yosemite National Park in 1906.
	www.americanparknetwork.com /parkinfo/yo/history (577 words)

	Yosemite Valley: An Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yosemite Valley is at the center of most visitor activity in Yosemite National Park.
		The Yosemite Association has two WebCams operating in Yosemite Valley and looking in the direction of Half Dome: one at Ahwahnee Meadow and one at Turtleback Dome.
		Note: To reduce traffic in Yosemite Valley, you will find it convenient and pleasant to park your car and walk or bicycle to the places you want to see or ride the free shuttle buses that serve the Valley's east end.
	jrabold.net /yosemite/intro1val.shtml (530 words)

	Yosemite Valley (cont.)
		Yosemite Falls is fed entirely by snow melt so it is dry in the summer through spring.
		Yosemite Falls is really a double fall (triple if you count the cascade between the upper and lower falls).
		Across the valley from Yosemite Falls you can see the rock that is Glacier Point.
	www.tomsdomain.com /travel/tours/yosemite/yosemitevalley02.htm (451 words)

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