Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Half Dome From Turlock-The Final Chapter

The pictures really grabbed my interest, so I created some maps in Google with lines to the peaks in the pictures above.

Originally posted 3-18-09:

Link to an artist view of the Yosemite area:  http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/wikipedia/images/commons_id/2611816

Also, it is pretty tough to refute the computer-generated image. It was generated by giving the location coordinates of the camera and then running the program using USGS elevation/location data. Compare the generated image with the one at the top.

Also, I forgot to post the Google Map view that I used to help me ID the peaks. Here are several views (click on each one for the full size), or click this link to actually go into Google Maps and play with the map yourself.




You can view my smugmug gallery here.

More links--

• Write up from Elias Funez, photographer for The Patterson Irrigator. He describes seeing Half Dome while driving, and stopping and taking his photos:  Aperture Priority, Clearing up the air.
• From the Yosemite Blog:  Is that Half Dome?
• From The Big YZ on Flickr:lookout vistas ISO Half Dome Adventure
• From Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite National Park (1956) by Richard P. Ditton and Donald E. McHenry:
    "V-19 HALF DOME...On clear days it can be seen from places along Highway 99 in the San Joaquin Valley."
• From Mike M on Flickr: Yosemite Valley from Denair, CA
• From the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton (just above San Jose):  lookout vistas: Diablo Range
• From a Turlock High School science teacher in his post, Phreatic Ramblings: A little help for my friends:  " If they maneuver to the correct vantage point just outside of Turlock's city limits they can see directly up Yosemite Valley to the tops of El Cap and Half Dome!"
• From Museum of Hoaxes, Can you see Half Dome from the Central Valley? (Status: True)