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Mt. Hoffmann from Snow Flat 

 Charles T. Hoffman, principal topog- 

 rapher of the Whitney Survey of 1863. 

 Mt. Hoffmann marks the approximate 

 geographic center of the park. 



J MAY LAKE JUNCTION. Just be- 



■ .« yond Snow Flat is the May Lake 



■ * junction. A steep but well-used foot 

 trail of about 1.7 miles will take you to 

 the May Lake High-Sierra Camp. Lo- 

 cated at about 9,300 feet in elevation, 



the camp is open from approximately 

 July 1 to September 10. The lake was 

 named for Lucy Mayotta Browne who, 

 in 1870, married Charles Hoffmann of 

 the Whitney Survey. 



TENAYA LAKE GRADE— After leav- 

 ing the May Lake junction you start 

 down the Tenaya Lake grade. Here in 

 about two miles you descend some 600 

 feet. To your left you will see Cathedral 

 Peak (elevation 10,993 feet), Tenaya 

 Lake (elevation 8,141 feet), and Te- 

 naya Peak (10,700 feet). 



J TENAYA LAKE. Tenaya Lake was 

 I a named in honor of Chief Tenaya of 

 the Yosemite Indians. On the early 

 morning of May 22, 1851, pursuing the 

 Yosemite Indians and, from the vicinity 

 of Tenaya Lake Grade, spotting their 

 camps on the lake, the Mariposa Battal- 

 ion, under Capt. John Boling, made such 

 a hasty attack clothed mostly in their 

 long red underwear that it gave rise to 

 an Indian story of "red devils." The cap- 

 ture of the Yosemites was completed 



Tenaya Lake 



