East From Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park, California

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Looking east from Olmsted Point is the tiny blue splash of Tenaya Lake among glacier-carved domes of white granite. This view, more than any other, captured for me the primeval grandeur of Yosemite. Yes, even more than looking up the Yosemite Valley at Half Dome and El Capitan.

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