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Identifier: bookofnationalpa1920yard (find matches)
Title: The book of the national parks
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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n a fine snow-crowned bench. Weascended the bench and found ourselves, not in thepass, but in the entrance to still another cirque, alsolake-studded, a loftier, nobler cirque encircling theone below. Ahead of us upon another lofty benchsurely was the pass. Those inspiring snow-daubedheights whose serrated edges cut sharply into the skycertainly marked the supreme summit. Our windingtrail up steep, rocky ascents pointed true; an hourstoil would carry us over. But the hour passed andthe crossing of the shelf disclosed, not the glowingvalley of the South Fork across the pass, but still avaster, nobler cirque above, sublime in Arctic glory! How the vast glaciers that cut these titanic carv-ings must have swirled among these huge concentricwalls, pouring over this shelf and that, piling togetheraround these uplifting granite peaks, concentratingcombined effort upon this unyielding mass and that,and, beaten back, pouring down the tortuous mainchannel with rendings and tearings unimaginable!
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From a photograph by Herbert ,V. Gleason EAST VIDETTE FROM A FOREST OF FOXTAIL PINESThis is one of the great granite peaks of the proposed Roosevelt National Park THE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK 85 Granite Pass is astonishing! We saw no lessthan four of these vast concentric cirques, throughthree of which we passed. And the Geological Sur-vey map discloses a tributary basin adjoining whichenclosed a group of large volcanic lakes, and doubtlessother vast cirque-like chambers. We took photographs, but knew them vain. A long, dusty descent of Copper Creek broughtus, near days end, into the exquisite valley of theSouth Fork of the Kings River, the Kings RiverCanyon. Still another Yosemite! It is not so easy to differentiate the two canyonsof the Kings. They are similar and yet very different.Perhaps the difference lies chiefly in degree. Both lieeast and west, with enormous rocky bluffs rising oneither side of rivers of quite extraordinary beauty.Both present carved and castellated walls of e

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