The Middle Cathedral Rock is a prominent rock face on the south side of
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley ( ; ''Yosemite'', Miwok for "killer") is a U-shaped valley, glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California, United States. The valley is about long a ...
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California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
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El Capitan
El Capitan (; ) is a vertical Rock formations in the United States, rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The El Capitan Granite, granite monolith is about from base to summit alo ...
lies due north of Middle Cathedral. Middle Cathedral's East Buttress Route is recognized in the historic climbing text ''
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America''.
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Rock formations of Yosemite National Park
Climbing areas of California
Mountains of Mariposa County, California