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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ereight-nionths-old pa-poose to greet us,and we praised thecliild and gave themother a little moneyin her palm, whichmade her face beamwith pleasure. The prospect of areally long trip thene.xt day induced us to make an earlystart. This was to cover the trail to thetop of Union and Glacier Point and Sen-tinel Dome, including a short stop-overat the Glacier Point hotel. The trail com-mences from a point near Camp .\hwah-nee, and soon we reached the invitingheights above and accepted the invita-tion to view the Yosemite falls from dif-ferent angles. Several hours later wereached the overhanging rock more than3200 feet above the valley. This is trulyone of the points of interest, sad as itsassociation is with the recent fatal ac-cident to a San l-ranciscan who, oblig-ing a lady who wished to step out aheadIII liiiii. lost his footing and fell lo thecruel iiicUs below. In mdunliiig ni\ pocket compass at thispoiiil. 1 ohseived the cNael relation of I.ciip Froi« 224 Pacific Service Magazine
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Falls of the Yosemite. Upper left. Lower Yosemite falls; upper right. Vernal falls; center,Yosemite falls; lower left. Bridal Veil falls; lower right, Nevada falls. Pacific Service Magazine 225 the different prominent peaks to GlacierPoint. I had fortunately availed myselfof such map data as I could securefrom the government publications, and sowith this engineering compass I was ingreat demand, continually explaining thewhereabouts of Mt. Watkins, Hoffmanmountains, Mt. Clark, Dana, Lyell, StarrKing, etc. The value of such easily pro-cured literature is well worth the priceon such a trip. It is true that it is fatigu-ing to carry too large a camera and tripod(which is absolutely necessary) and acompass and, often times, a lunch, butwhat is there in this world after all thatis worth anything at all that doesnt re-quire some exertion? From the veranda of the hotel at Gla-cier Point one of the most comprehensiveand completely finished views in theworld can be seen.For, looking fromthat h

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