Tamarack Creek (El Capitan)
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Description:
Named for the prevalent tree of the upper timber belt of the Sierra, Tamarack Pine, Pinus murrayana; called by Jepson, Tamrac Pine.
Collected by John Jeffrey, of the Oregon Botanical Association, of Edinburgh, in the Siskiyou mountains in 1852 and again near Walker’s Pass in the Sierra Nevada in 1853; named for Andrew Murray, of Edinburgh. Also called Murray Pine, Pitch Pine, Red Pine. “In the Rocky Mountains it is universally known as Lodgepole Pine, a name far preferable to the unfortunate folk-name, ‘Tamrac,’ accepted in California, since the latter suffers confusion with the true Tamarack or eastern Larch.” (Jepson: Silva of California, 1910, pp. 81-82.)
“We came to what I finally called ‘Tamarack Flat,’ although the appealing looks of the grizzlies we met on their way through this pass to the Tuolumne caused me to hesitate before deciding upon the final baptism; the grizzlies did not stay to urge any claim, and being affectionately drawn to the trees, we named the camp ‘Tamarack Flat’.” (Bunnell: Discovery of the Yosemite, 1880, p. 316.)
From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar
Trips:
- April 8, 2014 - Overnight trip to Cascade Creek
- April 9, 2014 - Return trip to Foresta
References:
- NPS Information on Tamarack Flat Campground
- Sunset-Best Yosemite camping places
- World of Waterfalls
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