NORTH OF THE VALLEY'S RIM

EFORE the restored Tioga Road pointed the way to the magnificent mountain and valley area constituting the northern half of the Yosemite National Park, this pleasure paradise was known to none except a few enthusiasts who penetrated its wilderness year after year with camping oufits.

This is the region of rivers and lakes and granite domes and brilliantly polished glacial pavements. The mark of the glacier is seen on every hand.

It is the region of small glaciers, remnants of a gigantic past, of which there are several in the park. It is the region of rock-bordered glacier lakes of which there are more than two hundred and fifty. It is the region, above all, of small, rushing rivers and of the roaring, foaming, twisting Tuolumne.

From the base of the Sierra crest, born of its snows, the Tuolumne River rushes westward roughly paralleling the Tioga Road. Midway it slants sharply down into the Tuolumne Canyon forming in its mad course a water spectacle destined some day to world fame.

NORTH OF THE VALLEY'S RIM. ON THE RIGHT MAY BE SEEN THE BACK OF HALF DOME; ON THE LEFT THE BACK OF CLOUD'S REST. Photograph by H. C. Tibbitts

THE CELEBRATED TUOLUMNE MEADOWS, FROM THE TIOGA ROAD NEAR SODA SPRINGS, SHOWING CATHERDRAL PEAK Photograph by H. C. Tibbitts

THE HIGH SIERRA: VIEW OF MOUNT RITTER FROM KUNA CREST Photograph by W. L. Huber

BEAUTIFUL ROGERS LAKE AND REGULATION PEAK IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE PARK Photograph by Herbert W. Gleason