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Your National Parks

Laurence Frederick Schmeckebier and Enos A. Mills

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . more slowly than the deep ice-streams that bear heavily upon the surface passed over. The ancient glaciers of the region took on vast proportions. An enormous and deep ice-field accumulated from the snows of Mounts Dana, Lyell, Gibbs, McClure, Conness, and other peaks. Flowing westward, it came in contact with Mount Hoffman, against which it divided. The right section flowed down into the Tuolumne; the left, a branch about two miles wide, swept upward, climbing about five hundred feet over the pass and descending upon the Lake Tenaya region.

Apparently, five glacier streams united in the Yosemite Valley. They not only filled it but deeply overflowed the highest points on its walls. Passing out of the lower end of the valley, the united glacier was forced to climb upward several hundred feet.

About twenty-five small glaciers still remain in the Yosemite National Park.[Pg 76] There are about two hundred and fifty glacier lakes, mostly small. Ot. . . Read More

Community Reviews

One of the classics from the 'father' of Rocky Mountain National Park. The book is a bit dated but the authors love for the subject matter more than makes up for it. I would recommend the book to anyone with an interest in National Parks and those who were there at the beginning of the National Park