Fairview Dome

Fairview Dome
North and west face of Fairview Dome from Daff Dome
Highest point
Elevation	9,728 ft (2,965 m) NAVD 88[1]
Prominence	643 ft (196 m)[1]
Coordinates	37°52′17″N 119°24′14″W[2]
Geography
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Location	Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.
Parent range	Sierra Nevada
Topo map	USGS Tenaya Lake
Climbing
First ascent	July 4, 1863 by H. Brewer and C.F. Hoffmann[3]
Easiest route	East face, scramble class 3[3]

Fairview Dome is a prominent granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north of Cathedral Peak and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Tuolumne Meadows.[2] Near Fairview Dome is Marmot Dome, linked by an area called Razor Back.[4] Northwest is Hammer Dome.[5]

John Muir wrote of the peak:

One of the best general views of the brightest and best of the Yosemite park landscapes that every Yosemite tourist should see, is to be had from the top of Fairview Dome, a lofty conoidal rock near Cathedral Peak that long ago I named the Tuolumne Glacier Monument, one of the most striking and best preserved of the domes... The general view from the summit consists of a sublime assemblage of ice-born rocks and mountains, long wavering ridges, meadows, lakes, and forest-covered moraines, hundreds of square miles of them.[6]

The north face route is popular with rock climbers and is listed in the classic guidebook Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. Routes vary in difficulty up to possibly class 5.11.[7]

Daff Dome on the left, Tuolumne Meadows in the center and Cathedral Range in the right from the summit of Fairview Dome.

References

1. "Fairview Dome, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
2. "Fairview Dome". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
3. Voge, Hervey H.; Andrew J. Smatko (1972). Mountaineer's Guide to the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. p. 58. ISBN 0-87156-064-X.
4. Lautzenheiser, Dan. "Marmot Dome Rock Climbing". Marmot Dome Rock Climbing. mountainproject.com. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
5. "Hammer Dome, California". peakbagger.com. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
6. Muir, John (1912). "Chapter 11". The Yosemite. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
7. Roper, Steve (1976). The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. pp. 76–80. ISBN 978-0871561473.