Thursday, January 8, 1970

Place: CA-Happy Isles

 
From Wikipedia

Happy Isles-4,045' (Yosemite Quad)
(37.73171, -119.558694)

Description:
"I have named them the Happy Isles, for no one can visit them without for the while forgetting the grinding strife of his world and being happy." (Letter, W.E. Dennison, Guardian of Yosemite Valley, Oct 25, 1885, in YNP files.) Earlier called "Island Rapids" by James M Hutchings. (YNN, 34 no 1, Jan 1944:8) (YNP)

Tennyson quote in Ulysses:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.


From GNIS:     In Yosemite National Park, in the Merced River at mile marker 130, 1.6 km (1 mi) southeast of Curry Village. (US-T121)

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