Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome, a granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in the Yosemite high country. Stately Pleasure Dome consists of glaciated and exfoliated granite rock that rises steeply 900 feet (270 m) from the lake shore; the very steep east side of the dome is popular with rock climbers, who gave the dome its name.
| Stately Pleasure Dome | |
|---|---|
 Stately Pleasure Dome from the South | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 9,065 ± 20 ft (2,763.0 ± 6.1 m) NAVD 88[1] |
| Prominence | 0 ft (0 m)[1] |
| Parent peak | Polly Dome |
| Coordinates | 37°50′19″N 119°27′28″W / 37.83861°N 119.45778°W[2] |
| Geography | |
  Stately Pleasure Dome Location of Stately Pleasure Dome in California  Stately Pleasure Dome Stately Pleasure Dome (the United States) | |
| Location | Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County, California, U.S. |
| Parent range | Sierra Nevada |
| Topo map | USGS Tenaya Lake |
The name presumably comes from the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
(emphasis added)[2]
Climbing edit
The south face of the formation is popular with rock climbers and has over twenty multi-pitch slab climbs many of them easy or moderate.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b "Stately Pleasure Dome, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- ^ a b "Stately Pleasure Dome". SummitPost.org. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
- ^ "Tuolumne Meadows Rock Climbing". Mountain Project. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
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