Place: CA-North Dome

North Dome (quad)

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Description:

There are two North Domes:

    Yosemite Valley (7,542', Hetch Hetchy Quad) - Named by the Mariposa Battalion in 1851: it was accross the valley from "South Dome", an early name for Half Dome. The dome was known as To-co-yah, meaning, a round basket used in gathering acorns." (Bunnell, Report, 1889-90,11) "To-ko-ye, North Dome. This rock represents Tisseyak's (Half Dome) husband. On one side of him is a huge, conical rock, which the Indians call the acorn-basket that his wife thre at him in anger." (Powers, 364, See Basket Dome and Half Dome . The name is on the King and Gardiner map of 1865. Two other early names for the dome were "Capitol Rock" and "Round Tower." (YNP)

    Kings Canyon (8,717', Marion Peak Quad) - Named by John Muir in July 1875 on his first visit to what he termed the "Kings River Yosemite." He named a number of features on both sides of Kings River Canyon after counterparts in Yosemite Valley. (San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Aug 13, 1875; also in SCB 12, no 3, 1926: 247). In 1890, J.N. LeConte called the dome "Bob Ingersoll Rock", after a sheepherder (LeConte, A Summer, 34; also in SCB 26, no 1, Feb 1941:12) (KNCP)

Named by Major Savage’s party in 1851. “The name for the ‘North Dome’ is To-ko-ya, its literal signification ‘The Basket’.” (Bunnell: Discovery of the Yosemite, 1880, p. 212.)   From Place Names of the Sierra Nevada by Francis P. Farquhar

Tokoya. The North Dome; meaning the basket, so named on account of its rounded basket shape. The Yosemite Book: a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California by Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr, Chp Introduction

Trips:

• June 2006 - Five day backpack trip with Andrea, Steven, Sherri and Gary
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