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Excerpt from Appalachia, Vol. 7: The Journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club; 1893-1895
The rugged pile of snow-clad mountains lying to the east of the Yosemite Valley, and embracing the groups of Mt. Lyell and Mt. Ritter, is, in many respects, the most mag nificent portion of the Sierra Nevada. For a distance of ten miles this mountain mass lies along the axis of the range, and in its rocky fastnesses four of the principal streams of this part of the State find their sources. At the northern ex tremity Mt. Lyell is the dominating point, lifting its glacier crowned summit feet above the sea. This mountain is readily accessible from the Tuolumne Meadows at its base, and is frequently ascended from this Side every summer by the more adventurous visitors to the Yosemite Valley. To the south rises Mt. Ritter, towering above an almost inaccessible wilderness of cations and amphitheatres about its base.
AS Viewed from the summit of Mt. Lyell, this peak pre sents a most imposing spectacle; and ever since I first viewed it from this point in the summer of 1889, it had been my greatest desire to reach the summit of this savage-looking old giant. The summers of 1890 and 1891 were spent else where in the Sierras; but in the spring of 1892 my friend Mr. Hubert Dyer arranged a trip with me, with the sole pur pose in view of attaining the summit of Mt. Ritter. Mr.
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