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CATHEDRAL PEAK

Short TR: Sven Feldmann and I left the Bay area at 7:30 am and after numerous stops parked on the roadside in Tuolomne Meadows at 1:30 PM. After a short approach via Budd Creek and a long lunch stop, we proceeded up the scree to the right of the Southeast Buttress. We were on the summit around 4 pm. There was one other party on the summit, which had climbed the SE buttress, and then a person who had soloed it appeared. The weather was perfect and we had a view of what seemed to be the whole of Yosemite National Park. We returned to the car via the John Muir Trail, a longer walk. This was worth it as we caught the alpenglow on Fairview Dome. We reached the car around 6:30 pm.

1. Deer on the trail.	2. More of the same.
3. More deer.	4. Cathedral from the approach hike.
5. Sven poses.
6. Cockscomb (left) and Echo Ridge (right)	7. Unicorn Peak (left) and Cockscomb (right)
9. Echo Peaks
10. On the summit.	11. On the summit.
12. Eichorn Pinnacle and the largest of the  Cathedral Lakes.	13. The Tuolomne domes, including Fairview Dome in the right foreground.
14. The smallest of the Cathedral Lakes and Half Dome in the distance.	15. Sven and Eichorn Pinnacle
16. On the descent, posing in from of Tuolomne.
17. The summit blocks.	18. Echo Peaks
19. Posing alone.	20. Posing together.
21. The summit of Cathedral from its base.	22. The same.
23. Eichorn Pinnacle and Cathedral Peak	24. The same.
25. Cathedral Peak.	26. Alpenglow on Fairview dome