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  Caption Mount Dana as seen from the west The hike to the top goes up this face
  Elevation 13,061 feet (3,981 metres)
  Location California , USA






Mount Dana is a Mountain on the eastern edge of Yosemite National Park in the U.S. State of California , and is the second highest peak within that park after Mount Lyell . The Dana Meadows lie at the foot of the mountain. They are named after James Dwight Dana , a professor of Geology at Yale . Mount Dana is composed of reddish Metamorphic Rock .

Mount Dana is a Class 1-2 climb, 3 miles (5 km) and 3100 foot (940 m) elevation gain from the park entrance at Tioga Pass . Mt. Dana is typically climbed from its western face, and its northern face includes a small, receding glacier known as the Dana Glacier.

from Mono Lake , with Tufa in foreground]]



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