This is the farthest northeastern limit and landmark of the reservation. We are looking straight away northeast. Here we are indeed on the roof of the world, ten thousand feet above sea level, and on the eternal snows which slowly fill the tinkling brooks and brawling burns, that in their united, myriad forces supply the crystal falls whose descent has afforded us such joys in the valleys six thousand feet below. We are in a different world now, of wider horizons and bleaker aspects. The trees no longer fight up, step by step, but cuddle together in the valleys. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, p. 69.
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