Foreword

Mapping adventure: a historical geography of Yosemite Valley climbing landscapes

“…Most climbers internalized Yosemite values long before arriving, and, when they did come, they could be hazed mercilessly. 36 Outsiders also could not help but view Yosemite as a landscape already deeply inscribed with history. In Lighting Out, for example, Daniel Duane muses on how thirty years ago El Capitan was a barely charted Louisiana Purchase; now it was impregnated with stories and route names: The Shield, Genesis, the Muir Wall, the Heart Route, Jolly Roger, and Magic Mushroom e the latter climb put up by two teenagers from Canada who ate hallucinogenic mushrooms en route.…”