My First Summer 



of the upper Tuolumne basin, along the east 

 side of Cathedral Peak, and up to its top- 

 most spire, which I reached at noon, having 

 loitered by the way to study the fine trees, 

 -two-leaved pine, mountain pine, albicau- 

 lis pine, silver fir, and the most charming, 

 most graceful of all the evergreens, the 

 mountain hemlock. High, cool, late-flower- 

 ing meadows also detained me, and lakelets 

 and avalanche tracks and huge quarries of 

 moraine rocks above the forests. 



All the way up from the Big Meadows to 

 thebaseof the Cathedral the groundiscovered 

 with moraine material, the left lateral mo- 

 raine of the great glacier that must have com- 

 pletely filled this upper Tuolumne basin. 

 Higher there are several small terminal mo- 

 raines of residual glaciers shoved forward at 

 right angles against the grand simple lateral 

 of the main Tuolumne Glacier. A fine place 

 to study mountain sculpture and soil making. 

 The view from the Cathedral Spires is .very 

 fine and telling in every direction. Innu- 

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