Bezienswaardigheden en plaatsen (Wikipedia) in de omgeving van Yosemite:
Ribbon Fall / 0.5 km
Ribbon Fall, located in Yosemite National Park in California, flows off a cliff on the west side of El Capitan and is the longest single-drop waterfall in North America. The fall is fed by melting winter snow; while therefore dry for much of the year, the fall is a spectacular 1,612 feet (491 m) in (...) (mehr)Salathé Wall / 1.1 km
The Salathé Wall is one of the original technical climbing routes up El Capitan, a high granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. The Salathé Wall was named by Yvon Chouinard in honor of John Salathé, a pioneer of rock climbing in Yosemite (...) (mehr)El Capitan / 1.1 km
El Capitan (Spanish for The Captain, The Chief) is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, located on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith is about from base to summit along its tallest face, and is a popular location for rock climbers (...) (mehr)The Nose (El Capitan) / 1.1 km
The Nose is one of the original technical climbing routes up El Capitan. Once considered impossible to climb, El Capitan is now the standard for big-wall climbing. It is recognized in the historic climbing text Fifty Classic Climbs of North America and considered a classic around the world (...) (mehr)Yosemite Valley / 1.1 km
Yosemite Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California. The valley is about 7.5 miles (12 km) long and approximately 3000–3500 feet deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with (...) (mehr)powered by Geonames.org, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap
