Part 3

General Grant Tree 18

The Giant Geyser--greatest in the world 22

The Yosemite Falls--highest in the world 26

El Capitan, survivor of the glaciers 44

Half Dome, Yosemite's hooded monk 46

The climax of Yosemite National Park 56

The greatest waterwheel of the Tuolumne 56

Tehipite Dome, guardian rock of the Tehipite Valley 82

East Vidette from a forest of foxtail pines 84

Bull Frog Lake, proposed Roosevelt National Park 90

Under a giant sequoia 90

Estes Park Plateau, looking east 96

Front range of the Rockies from Bierstadt Lake 96

Summit of Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park 110

The Andrews Glacier hangs from the Continental Divide 114

A Rocky Mountain cirque carved from solid granite 114

Mount McKinley, looming above the great Alaskan Range 128

Archdeacon Stuck's party half-way up the mountain 128

The summit of Mount McKinley 128

In Lafayette National Park 134

Sea caves in the granite 134

Frenchman's Bay from the east cliff of Champlain Mountain 140

Lassen Peak seen from the southwest 152

Lassen Peak close up 152

Southeast slope of Mount Rainier 162

Mount St. Helens seen from Mount Rainier Park 166

Mount Adams seen from Mount Rainier Park 166

Sluiskin Ridge and Columbia Crest 172