There is one familiar sight in the valley we have only seen once or twice, and that in mere outline at a distance; I mean the many zig-zag trails which reflect credit on those who have done so much to make the Park accessible, with comfort, to both sexes. It is a useful and practical thing to have selected a possible route, designed the necessary engineering works and executed them in the zig-zags of a trail so that one can ride on horseback from the valley to the cliff tops. Well may the novitiate, gazing up these perpendicular stone walls, where nature hides man's works, hesitate to believe in, much less to venture on, so apparently an impossible ride. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 64-65.
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