Picture of the Day: Morning View from Washburn Point, Yosemite
Morning View from
Washburn Point, Yosemite
Redditor Jesse L. Summers shared this incredible shot of Yosemite National Park in California as seen from Washburn Point, at an elevation of about 7000 ft.
The shot was was taken in the early morning, just down the road from Glacier Point. Many commenters were also quick to draw comparisons of this incredible landscape shot to the popular video game Skyrim.
Yosemite National Park is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in the central eastern portion of California, United States. The park covers an area of 761,268 acres (3,080.74 km2) and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain. Over 3.7 million people visit Yosemite each year and it was designated a World Heritage Site in 1984. Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness. [Source: Wikipedia]
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