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The Half Dome Cable Route hike runs from the valley floor to the top of the dome in 8.2 mi (13 km) (via the Mist Trail), with 4,800 ft (1,460 m) of elevation gain. The length and difficulty of the trail used to keep it less crowded than other park trails, but trail traffic grew to as many as 1,000 people a day, and about 50,000 per year, before ...
The valley is about 7.5 mi (12.1 km) long and 3,000–3,500 ft (910–1,070 m) deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines. The valley is drained by the Merced River , and a multitude of streams and waterfalls flow into it, including Tenaya , Illilouette, Yosemite and Bridalveil ...
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Cathlamet in 1973 (Main Street from Columbia Street) Cathlamet was the largest, or one of the largest, villages of Columbia River Native Americans west of the Cascade Mountains, and the home of the Kathlamet people. [5] "Cathlamet was sighted in 1792 by Lt. W.R. Broughton, while verifying Capt. Robert Gray's reported exploration of the Columbia ...
A hiker climbing Yosemite National Park's famous Half Dome died after suffering a 500-foot fall, according to the Visalia Times-Delta. ... as many as 1,200 might scale Half Dome in one day ...
Wahkiakum County, with Cathlamet as the county seat, was created by the First Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Washington in 1854. [5]: 126 Early settlers came from Great Britain and the eastern United States until around 1870, when they were followed by a large number of immigrants from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Dalmatia. From 1870 ...
East Cathlamet is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wahkiakum County, Washington, on the eastern border of the town of Cathlamet. The population was 578 as of the 2020 census . The East Cathlamet community is part of the Wahkiakum School District , a K-12 school district of about 430 students.
English: Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. Captured by Planet’s SkySat constellation on June 18, 2019. ©Planet Labs, Inc. CC BY 4.0. Captured by Planet’s SkySat constellation on June 18, 2019. ©Planet Labs, Inc. CC BY 4.0.