Mirror Lake (Lower Pool)
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Historical photos from circa 1907 show people paddling their canoes around a Mirror Lake that covered several acres and was maybe eight or ten feet deep. In 1957, while it was still one of the most photographed lakes in the world, one of the park rangers said that the lake was silting up so quickly that "someday we'll be calling it Mirror Meadows instead of Mirror Lake."
That someday is now.
Even during the spring snow melt about all that's left of the lake is a half dozen shallow ponds. By the end of Summer even that dries up leaving little more than a marsh.
Painting by Albert Bierstadt shows Mirror Lake as it appeared in the summer of 1863.
caltopo.com/map.html#ll=37.74885,-119.54956&z=16&b=t&o=...
That someday is now.
Even during the spring snow melt about all that's left of the lake is a half dozen shallow ponds. By the end of Summer even that dries up leaving little more than a marsh.
Painting by Albert Bierstadt shows Mirror Lake as it appeared in the summer of 1863.
caltopo.com/map.html#ll=37.74885,-119.54956&z=16&b=t&o=...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Valley
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Coordinates: 37°44'53"N 119°32'59"W
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- Cherry Lake 45 km
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- Don Pedro Reservoir 79 km
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- Tulloch Lake 96 km
- New Melones Reservoir 100 km
- Woodward Reservoir 118 km
- New Hogan Lake 122 km
- Pardee Reservoir 131 km
- Half Dome 1.6 km
- 4-Mile Trail 3.8 km
- Eagle Peak Meadows 5.6 km
- El Capitan 7.7 km
- Cathedral Rocks 8.6 km
- Yosemite National Park 10 km
- Grant Lakes 16 km
- Ten Lakes 17 km
- Crane Flat Campground 22 km
- Camp Mather 31 km
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