competes with Yosemite's many waterfalls as symbols of the park. Half Dome wins because it is unique. This picture was taken from Glacier Point, after a hike from the valley floor.
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| Half Dome, a huge rock sliced in two by a long-ago glacier, competes with Yosemite's many waterfalls as symbols of the park. Half Dome wins because it is unique. This picture was taken from Glacier Point, after a hike from the valley floor. |
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| Mono Lake, with its signature tufa formations, reflected along with clouds and mountains. It lies east of Yosemite. After decades of legal/political battles, the lake was saved from extinction thanks to limitations placed upon water diversions by the City of Los Angeles. Now Mono Lake is being restored to a healthy water level. Some of the tufa is going to disappear, since it was formed under water. As the lake shrank, emergence of the distinctive, highly photogenic tufa helped the Mono Lake Committee to save it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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