Stately Pleasure Dome

Stately Pleasure Dome
Stately Pleasure Dome from the South
Highest point
Elevation	9,065 ± 20 ft (2,763.0 ± 6.1 m)  NAVD 88[1]
Prominence	0 ft (0 m) [1]
Parent peak	Polly Dome
Coordinates	37°50′19″N 119°27′28″W / 37.83861°N 119.45778°WCoordinates: 37°50′19″N 119°27′28″W / 37.83861°N 119.45778°W [2]
Geography
Stately Pleasure Dome Stately Pleasure Dome Location of Stately Pleasure Dome in California
Location	Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.
Parent range	Sierra Nevada
Topo map	USGS Tenaya Lake

Stately Pleasure Dome viewed from the East from the shores of Tenaya Lake.

Stately Pleasure Dome is an officially name for the southeast portion of the Polly Dome and a prominent 900 feet (270 m) foot granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in Yosemite high country. It consist of glaciated and exfoliated granite rock rising straight from the lake shore.

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

“

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.[2]

”

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.^[3]

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  Tenaya Lake and climbers on Stately Pleasure Dome
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  Eight climbers on various routes
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  Climbers on Hermaphrodite Flake route
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  Climbers on West Country route

References

1. "Stately Pleasure Dome, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
2. "Stately Pleasure Dome". SummitPost.org. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
3. "Tuolumne Meadows Rock Climbing". Mountain Project. Retrieved 31 December 2015.