Place: CA-Tenaya

Tenaya Creek-3,973' (Mt Lyell, Half Dome)  (37.7432588, -119.5684971-Mouth) 
Tenaya Lake-8,143' (Mt Lyell, Tenaya Lake) (37.8311961, -119.4605829) 
Tenaya Canyon-4,003' (Mt Lyell) (37.7421477, -119.5548852-Mouth)
Tenaya Peak-10,266' (Mt Lyell)  (37.8285358,  -119.4432150)
Tenaya Bridge-3,996' (Half Dome)  (37.7418699, -119.5579408)

Description:
“Looking back to the lovely little lake, where we had been encamped during the night [about June 5, 1851], and watching Ten-ei-ya as he ascended to our group, I suggested to the Captain [Bowling] that we name the lake after the old chief, and call it ‘Lake Ten-ei-ya’. . . . Gentlemen, [he said,] I think the name an appropriate one, and shall use it in my report of the expedition. Beside this, it is rendering a kind of justice to perpetuate the name of the old chief.’ . . . The Indian name for this lake, branch and cañon, ‘Py-we-ack,’ is, although a most appropriate one, now displaced by that of the old chief Ten-ei-ya. Of the signification of the name Ten-ei-ya, I am uncertain; but as pronounced by himself, I have no doubt of its being pure Indian.” (Bunnell: Discovery of the Yosemite, 1880, pp. 236-238. See, also, pp. 203-204.)

On GNIS:

• Tenaya Creek:     In Yosemite National Park, heads on the north slope of Medicott Dome, flows southwest through Tenaya Lake and Mirror Lake in Tenaya Canyon to the north bank of Merced River near mile marker 129. Also called:
• Py-we-ah: Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1949. p276
• Ten-ai-ya Creek: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
• Tenaya Fork: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
•  Tenaya Peak:  In Yosemite National Park, 1.9 km (1.2 mi) west of Tresidder Peak and 2.1 km (1.3 mi) northwest of Columbia Finger. Also called:
• Coliseum Peak: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
• Tenaiya Cliff: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
•  Tenaya lake: In Yosemite National Park, in Tenaya Canyon on Tenaya Creek at the west base of Tenaya Peak and 2.1 km (1.3 mi) southwest of Pywiak Dome.. Also called:
• Yo-Semity Lake:
  Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
• Py-we-ack: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
• Lake Ten-ie-ya:  Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
•  Tenaya Canyon: Heads 1.6 km (1 mi) west of Sunrise Lakes, trends southwest to open out near the northeast end of Yosemite Valley.
•  Tenaya Canon: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
• Ten-ie-ya Canon: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142
• Py-we-ack: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p142

This postcard is of Tenaya Lake Lodge, one of the original High Sierra Camps created in 1916 and located on the shore of Tenaya Lake. In 1938 the Tenaya Lake Lodge was moved to May Lake, one mile from the Tioga Road near Mount Hoffmann.     From the Yosemite History Facebook group on August 2, 2016



Trips:

• November 11, 2015 - Meetup day hike around the East end of the Valley 
• October 15, 2016 - Meetup hike around the east end of Yosemite Valley  
• October 22, 2016 - Walking Mirror Lake Loop 
• May 4, 2019 - Meetup hike around the east end of Yosemite Valley 
• October 14, 2020 - Hiking the Mirror Lake Loop-Sherri, Gary and Rose
• November 2, 2021 - Day hike around the central part of Yosemite Valley 
• November 6, 2024 - Walking around the east end of the Valley from Camp Curry to Mirror Lake and over to the Ahwahnee

References:

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