At that hour, the day’s tramp over, I loved to lie back in my camp-chair and look and look at its noble outline against the bright western sky.
It was especially alluring to me in the evening twilight. The rock was in sight from my tent-door for eight weeks, and grand as it was at first, and grander still as it became, I could never make it look half a mile high. Rise about so far, and you are over it.įor myself, I sympathize with the geese. El Capitan is nothing but a cliff, and a cliff - well, any goose knows what a cliff is like.
A mountain three thousand feet high is a thing to which they are more or less used, but a vertical surface of anything like the same elevation stands quite outside of all ordinary experience. The fact seems to be that the eyes of men and geese alike are unaccustomed to such perpendicular altitudes. The real height is thirty-three hundred feet. Bunnell, waxing very courageous, raised the figure to fifteen hundred. A bolder spirit, guessed eight hundred, while Dr.
One ‘official’ estimated it at four hundred feet. Bunnell, in his interesting account of the discovery of the Valley, describes the ludicrous guesses of his companions and himself as to the height of the rock known since that day as El Capitan. The rock looks to be only about so high, but when they should be flying far over its top, northward or southward as the season may be, here they are once more beating against its stony face and only when, in their bewilderment, they happen to follow the downward course of the river, do they hit upon an exit. There is something mysterious about it, they must think. Whatever direction they take, they are soon stopped by the wall, the height of which they seem to have an insuperable difficulty in gauging. Muir tells us, they have hard work to find their way out again. Macworld magazine said of an earlier version: "Solitaire Till Dawn is the best solitaire game I've seen on any platform", and MacAddict magazine awarded its highest rating, "Freakin' Awesome!" This new version was written from the ground up for modern Macs, and we think it's even better than ever.WHEN flocks of wild geese light in the Yosemite, Mr.
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