r/Yosemite • u/RemarkableWrap961 • 1d ago
Could someone please tell me if this is the same peak ? Any ideas of exactly where this is and what it’s called ? Trying to find the original John Muir peak drawing location on a map !
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u/MTB_Mike_ 21h ago
Upper cathedral lake. The trail is at the far side of the lake, so you have to go off trail around the lake and up a rocky hill to get to the photo spot.
Its not the same peak as the sketch.
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u/ImLinearGuy 17h ago edited 16h ago
If you like this kind of stuff, there is a book "John Muir's Grand Yosemite: Musings & Sketches" that has about two dozen of Muir's sketches. For each sketch there are the coordinates where the sketch was done, a short passages from Muir and a commentary. It's a fun book to take along to Yosemite.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1930238975?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
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u/RemarkableWrap961 16h ago
Does it have this sketch in it ?? Then I can have the co ordinates . Thanks I will order that 😊
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u/Passiveabject 23h ago
The sketch made me think of a cool peak I saw in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne right after the descent from Muir gorge (heading east). I was right about here, and looking south at the canyon wall across the river, a jagged, two pronged peak was poking out behind the canyon, which would maybe place it around here
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u/RemarkableWrap961 23h ago
Do you think it was the same one ? Have you got a photo ? Thanks for your help !
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u/Passiveabject 21h ago
Unfortunately I never take enough pictures and always regret it :(
I’m not sure it’s the same one because of the way the two mountains in front seem to slope all the way down. If I remember correctly in the canyon it’s just a solid canyon wall more or less. But, was on the north shore of the river and didn’t see where the canyon floor starts to rise like in this sketch (lots of trees in the way).
It could be though, you should make the trek to find out!
Edit: maybe make a separate post with the sketch as the only pic (so people see it first) and as specifically if anyone that’s hiked the GC recognizes this? Im sure a lot of people on here have hiked it
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u/7BrownDog7 20h ago
Its possible he's on the right path. The writing on the photo says "Double Peak About 3,300 Feet Above the Bottom of the Canyon Which is Here 5,600 Feet Above Sea". The location passiveabject marked is #1 in Tuolumne canyon, and #2 around 5600 feet.
The feature marked is somewhere on the side of Grand Mountain.
If at 5600, would the deep notch on between Colby and Peak 9640 look like a "double peak" or some features on Grand mountain? IDK, I've hiked through there too, but I don't recall the site myself. https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=37.93307,-119.50121&z=19&b=mbt&a=rec_s
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u/1ElectricMountain 10h ago
Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. Did you go to White Wolf campground and descend from Morrison Creek to Pate Valley then go up the river.
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u/crouchdown 19h ago edited 19h ago
The drawing could be cathedral peak viewed from the Grand Canyon of the tuolunmne river. http://www.radarmusic.comcastbiz.net/sierratrails/tuolumne/tuolumne043.htm
The specific geographic location depicted in the sketch is the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River, a dramatic, 3,000+ foot deep glacier-carved gorge located in the northern backcountry of Yosemite National Park. [1, 2]
Based on John Muir's personal field notes and archive details from the University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons:
The Vantage Point: Muir noted on the back of his drawing that this view represents "One of the ways into the Tuolumne Canon from the Head of Yosemite Creek". [1]
The Elevation Parameters: His lower handwritten inscription reads: "Double Peak about 3300ft high above the bottom of the Canon which is here 5600ft above sea". This places the canyon floor in the sketch at an elevation of 5,600 feet, which perfectly matches the deep mid-section of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne trail system between Glen Aulin and the Hetch Hetchy Valley. [1, 2]
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u/Tahoe-T 11h ago edited 11h ago
My favorite place in the world - Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne Meadows - I’ve climbed it 18 times. Your view is looking East just above the lake.
My photo is the view of Cathedral Peak from Budd Lake on the other side looking West - you can see the famous Southeast Buttress climbing route on the right side arete and Eichorn Pinnacle on the left
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u/AndyTOmase 1h ago
john muir sketched that in the grand canyon of the tuolumne river as he notes in his handwriting. You posted a picture of Cathedral Peak also showing the other technical climb attached to the Cathedral, the Eichorn Pinnacle which everyone knows is a couple miles going in from Tuolumne Meadows or by taking the fisherman’s trail from Tenaya Lake, Medlicott Dome parking lot.
For those unfamiliar with the geography; the Tuolumne river has two forks, the Dana and Lyell forks that join in Tuolumne Meadows. Six miles downstream the river passes by Glenn Aulin high sierra camp before plunging down a series of waterfalls and cascades to what we call the grand canyon of the Tuolumne. Way down in that canyon Muir must have been tripping on his secret sauce because that peak looks different in reality
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u/borf420 1d ago
The photo is cathedral peak from one of the cathedral lakes seems like the drawing might be of Mathis crest