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Stately Pleasure Dome

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Prominence
  
0 ft (0 m)

Parent range
  
Sierra Nevada

Range
  
Sierra Nevada

Parent peak
  
Polly Dome

Topo map
  
USGS Tenaya Lake


Elevation
  
9,065 ± 20 ft (2,763.0 ± 6.1 m)  NAVD 88

Location
  
Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.

Similar
  
Pywiack Dome, Daff Dome, Fairview Dome, Tenaya Peak, Medlicott Dome

Rock climbing on south crack of stately pleasure dome 24 october 2015


Stately Pleasure Dome is the un-official 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.

Contents

The name presumably comes from the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Climbing stately pleasure dome


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.

References

Stately Pleasure Dome Wikipedia