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Clouds Rest 
The summit of Cloud's Rest.Elevation 9,930 ft (3,027 m) NAVD 88[1] Prominence 806 ft (246 m) [2] Parent peak Tresidder Peak [3] Listing Sierra Peaks Section Peak [4] Location Location Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California, USA Range Sierra Nevada Coordinates 37°46′04″N 119°29′21″W / 37.767853889°N 119.489226925°WCoordinates: 37°46′04″N 119°29′21″W / 37.767853889°N 119.489226925°W [1] Climbing Easiest route Trail hike, class 1 [5] 
Clouds Rest is a mountain in Yosemite National Park east northeast of Yosemite Village, California. Although there are many peaks in the park having far greater elevation, Clouds Rest's proximity to the valley gives it a very high degree of visual prominence.
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Geography
The summit can be reached by a 7.0-mile (11.3 km) trail hike from Tioga Pass Road or a 9.4-mile (15.1 km) trail hike from Happy Isles by way of Little Yosemite Valley. There are also several technical routes available.[5]
Clouds Rest is an arête, a thin, almost knife-like, ridge of rock formed when glaciers eroded away solid rock to form Tenaya Canyon and Little Yosemite Valley. The northwest face, mostly solid granite, raises 5,000 feet (1,520 m) above Tenaya Creek.
History
Lafayette H. Bunnell, a medical doctor with the Mariposa Battalion, notes that his party named the summit Clouds Rest because they returned to camp to avoid a snow storm after seeing "the clouds rapidly settling down to rest upon that mountain."[6]
References
- ^ a b "Clouds Rest". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=HR2868. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
- ^ "Clouds Rest, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2609. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
- ^ "Mount Ritter - California Mountain Atlas". Peaklist.org. http://www.peaklist.org/CAmtnatlas/tables/whitney/ritter.html. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ "Sierra Peaks Section List". Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sps/spslist.pdf. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ a b "Clouds Rest". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/150422.
- ^ Bunnell, Lafayette H. (1892). Discovery of the Yosemite (3rd ed.). OCLC 14454959. http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/discovery_of_the_yosemite/13.html#page_201.
External links
Media related to Clouds Rest at Wikimedia Commons- "Clouds Rest". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:254751. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
Categories:- Mountains of Yosemite National Park
- Mountains of Mariposa County, California
- California geography stubs
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