This is the best known and most extensively traveled of all that exist in the High Sierra.

A trail was made through it about the time of the Mono gold excitement, in the year 1858, by adventurous miners and prospectors--men who would build a trail down the throat of darkest Erebus on the way to gold.

Though more than a thousand feet lower than the Kearsarge, it is scarcely less sublime in rock-scenery, while in snowy, falling water it far surpasses it.

Being so favorably situated for the stream of Yosemite travel, the more adventurous tourists cross over through this glorious gateway to the volcanic region around Mono Lake.

It has therefore gained a name and fame above every other pass in the range.