Place: CA-Cathedral (Tuolumne Meadows)

Cathedral Pass-9,708' (Tenaya Lake) (37.8346473, -119.4148803)
Cathedral Lake-9,291' (Tenaya Lake) (37.8450182,  -119.4243196)
Cathedral Creek-5,670' (Tenaya Lake) (37.8563137,  -119.405436)
Cathedral Range
Cathedral Peak-10,853' (Tenaya Lake) (     37.8477028, -119.4054357)
Cathedral Fork of Echo Creek-8,176' (Tenaya Lake) (37.8302778, -119.4136111)


Description:
From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar
“From a high ridge, crossed just before reaching this lake [Tenaya], we had a fine view of a very prominent exceedingly grand landmark through all the region, and to which the name of Cathedral Peak has been given.” (Whitney Survey: Geology, 1865, p. 425.)
“No wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. The same may be said of stone temples. Yonder, to the eastward of our camp grove, stands one of Nature’s cathedrals, hewn from the living rock, almost conventional in form, about two thousand feet high, nobly adorned with spires and pinnacles, thrilling under floods of sunshine as if alive like a grove-temple, and well named ‘Cathedral’.” (Muir: My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911, p. 196.)
John Muir climbed to the topmost spire, September 7, 1869. (Muir: My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911, p. 332.)
Theodore S. Solomons describes an ascent in 1897. (S.C.B., 1901, III:3, p. 236.)

From GNIS:

• Cathedral Fork/Creek:  Heads between Echo Peaks and Matthes Crest, flows south-southwest to Echo Creek 14.4 km (9 mi) east-northeast of Yosemite Village. (US-T121)
•  Cathederal Lake: In Yosemite National Park, 1.6 km (1 mi) southwest of Cathedral Peak and 3.2 km (2 mi) east-northeast of Tenaya Lake. (US-T121)
• Cathedral Pass: In Yosemite National Park, in the Cathedral Range, located between Echo Peaks to the east and Tresidder Peak to the west. (US-T121)
• Cathedral Creek: In Yosemite National Park, heads at an unnamed lake on the north slope of Cathedral Peak, flows northwest to join the Tuolumne River 0.32 km (0.2 mi) southeast of mile marker 136. (US-T121)
• Also called Rocky Canyon Creek according to Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p194
• Budds Creek has also been called Cathedral Creek according to Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p17
• Cathedral peak: In Yosemite National Park, in the Cathedral Range, on the Tuolumne County and Mariposa County boundary, 1.6 km (1 mi) north of Cathedral Pass and Echo Peaks. (US-T121)
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Trips:

• June 27, 2013-JMT
• July 2012 - JMT

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