Stately Pleasure Dome
| 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°WCoordinates: 37°50′19″N 119°27′28″W / 37.83861°N 119.45778°W [2] |
| Geography | |
  Stately Pleasure Dome  Stately Pleasure Dome Location of Stately Pleasure Dome in California | |
| Location | Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County, California, U.S. |
| Parent range | Sierra Nevada |
| Topo map | USGS Tenaya Lake |
Stately Pleasure Dome viewed from the East from the shores of Tenaya Lake.
Stately Pleasure Dome is an officially name for the southeast portion of the Polly Dome and a prominent 900 feet (270 m) foot granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in Yosemite high country. It consist of glaciated and exfoliated granite rock rising straight from the lake shore.
The name presumably comes from the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
| “ | In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: |
” |
Climbing
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]
Tenaya Lake and climbers on Stately Pleasure Dome
Eight climbers on various routes
Climbers on Hermaphrodite Flake route
Climbers on West Country route
References
- 1 2 "Stately Pleasure Dome, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- 1 2 "Stately Pleasure Dome". SummitPost.org. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
- ↑ "Tuolumne Meadows Rock Climbing". Mountain Project. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
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