The Cathedral Range is a mountain range immediately to the south of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park . The range is an offshoot of the Sierra Nevada . The range is named after Cathedral Peak , which resembles a cathedral spire.
3-583: The range includes Cathedral Peak, Unicorn Peak, Eichorn Pinnacle, Echo Peaks , Echo Ridge, Matthes Crest , Rafferty Peak , Vogelsang Peak , Fletcher Peak and Cockscomb . The highest point in the range is Mount Florence , one of the most prominent peaks in the Yosemite high country. The highest peak in Tuolumne Meadows is Johnson Peak . The range runs beside the two Cathedral Lakes , just one mile southwest of Cathedral Peak. Hikers can access
6-681: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Echo Peaks (Toulumne Meadows) Echo Peaks consists of nine peaks , in the Tuolumne Meadows region of Yosemite National Park , California . They are near Echo Ridge. John Muir passed by Echo Peaks, writing about it in The Yosemite , sometime during or before 1912. Echo Peaks are near all of Budd Lake , Cathedral Lakes , Cathedral Peak , Cockscomb , Elizabeth Lake , Matthes Crest , Tresidder Peak and Unicorn Peak . Echos Peaks have rock climbing. Among rock climbers , Echo Peaks are popular, offering class 2-5 climbs on
9-464: The lakes and Cathedral range by the John Muir trail from the trailhead in Tuolumne Meadows . The mountains were formed by glaciers carving out the granite material; also see Cathedral Peak Granodiorite . The tops of the peaks in the range were above the level of the highest glaciation, and are therefore un-eroded and distinctly spire-like; see nunatak . This Yosemite -related article
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