El Capitan

El Capitan ("The Captain") is another great Yosemite feature. It's the largest single chunk of granite in the world. I once heard that if you quarried the whole thing (oh, please don't!), you could pave a road stretching from San Francisco to New York City. Surprisingly, even though we had Dad's binoculars (thanks Pam), we couldn't spot any climbers from the valley floor. Fortunately, we also didn't see any BASE jumpers (the practice is illegal in Yosemite). Those people are nuts!