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Liberty Cap is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park at the northwestern edge of Little Yosemite Valley, just north of Nevada Fall beside the John Muir Trail. Rising about 1,700 feet from the base of the waterfall to 7,080 feet, it stands next to the smaller Mount Broderick. Its name dates to 1865, when California governor Leland Stanford, visiting Yosemite with James Hutchings, judged the dome to resemble the liberty cap shown on a half-dollar associated with Hutchings and chose the name. Liberty Cap is also a climbing destination, reached by routes from Happy Isles and by technical climbs on the dome itself.
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