YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
A Personal Discovery
Ardeth Huntington
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
ISBN 1-58071-035-2
$9.95

This stunningly beautiful, oversized book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by America’s leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region and insightful, heartfelt narratives detailing the park’s natural and human histories.

Yosemite—the word evokes a kaleidoscopic mixture of memories; sleeping on moonlit granite the night before visiting the Mount Conness glacier, the fascination of exfoliating granite domes, meadows flowering exquisitely between Merced Lake and Vogelsang High Sierra Camps, the aroma of pine needles on a hot summer day. To some Yosemite is a playground, to others a revered paradise. It inspires passion—and invites controversy. In trying to capture its essence, writers have glorified it with grandiloquence; praising its majestic grandeur, infinite lavishness, splendored magnificence; describing it as awesome, divine, stunning, and sublime.

In my relationship with Yosemite, I admit to a deep affection. I have expectations of reaffirming those feelings today as I set out for a rendezvous with the full moon at Sentinel Dome. The scrunch of my Vibram soles digging into the sandy trail is purposeful, reassuring. Each step increases my anticipation, especially as I near the base of the dome. Sentinel Dome, at 8,122 feet, is not the highest point on the rim of Yosemite Valley (Half Dome exceeds it) but it is my choice for enjoying a “top of the world” feeling on this June day. Its 360-degree view offers one big gulp of Yosemite, a blend of vastness and intimacy. Tonight I hope to recapture the sense of personal discovery I experienced on this dome many years ago.

—From “A Personal Discovery” by Ardeth Huntington

A Personal Discovery
Ardeth Huntington
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
ISBN 1-58071-035-2
$9.95

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