Sierra Club Bulletin 



Vol. IX 



San Francisco, January, 1914 



No. 3 



TEHIPITE VALLEY 



By John Muir 



Tehipite Valley on the middle fork of Kings River is about 

 three miles long, half a mile wide, and the walls are from 

 3,500 to nearly 4,000 feet in height. The level floor is 

 planted with oaks and pines, libocedrus, etc., forming charm- 

 ing flowery groves like those of Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite, 

 enclosed by majestic granite walls which in height and beauty 

 and variety of architecture are hardly surpassed by any other 

 Yosemite in the Sierra. Several small cascades coming from 

 a great height sing and shine among the intricate architecture 

 of the south wall, one of which, when seen in front, seems 

 to be a nearly continuous fall about 2,000 feet high. But the 

 grand fall of the valley is on the north side, made by Crown 

 Creek, a stream about the size of Yosemite Creek. This is the 

 Tehipite Fall, about 1,800 feet high. The upper portion is 

 interrupted by dashing cascades but the last plunge is made 

 over a sheer precipice about 400 feet in height into a beauti- 

 ful pool in a recess of the valley floor. To the eastward of the 

 fall is the great Tehipite Dome, a gigantic round-topped tower 

 about 3,600 feet in height, the most striking and wonderful 

 feature of the valley, and one of the most wonderful of all 

 the famous domes of the Sierra. 



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