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A day on the floor of Yosemite Valley, under El Capitan's 3,000-foot granite face — across the wildflower meadow, along the Merced River, with Half Dome and the Three Brothers visible up-valley.
A roadside marker here notes that President Theodore Roosevelt sat beside a campfire with John Muir on May 17, 1903, where Muir urged him to work for the preservation of America's wilderness — a conversation credited with helping shape the national park system Roosevelt championed afterward.
