Pywiack Dome

Pywiack Dome
Highest point
Elevation8,819[1] ft (2,688 m) NAVD 88
Prominence251 ft (77 m)[2]
Coordinates37°50′47″N 119°26′35″W / 37.84639°N 119.44306°W / 37.84639; -119.44306[1][2]
Geography
Pywiack Dome is located in California
Pywiack Dome
Pywiack Dome
Location of Pywiack Dome in California
Pywiack Dome is located in the United States
Pywiack Dome
Pywiack Dome
Pywiack Dome (the United States)
LocationYosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California, U.S.
Parent rangeSierra Nevada
Topo mapUSGS Tenaya Lake

Pywiack Dome is a prominent 600 foot granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located 0.7 miles (1.1 km) north-east of Tenaya Lake, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Tuolumne Meadows and 200 feet (61.0 m) from the Tioga Road.[3] It is quite near Harlequin Dome,[4] and North and South Whizz Domes are north.

Josiah Whitney the head of California Geological Survey wrote in 1863 about Pywiack Dome in Geology:

At the head of Lake Tenaya is a very conspicuous conical knob of bare granite, about 800 feet high, the sides of which are everywhere finely polished and grooved by former glaciers.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Pywiack Dome". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  2. ^ a b "Pywiack Dome, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  3. ^ "Pywiack Dome". SummitPost.org. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  4. ^ Janes, Josh (September 21, 2006). "Phobos/Deimos Cliff Rock Climbing". mountainproject.com. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
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