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Granite monolith, split along a fracture and carved by glaciers.HE-EA-26-001-HDM

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Half Dome

Archival print in a 20 mm oak or ash frame, ready to hang.

$159
EditionOne terrain · three objects
TeeFrom $45WearableComplete EditionFrom $82Tee + Print
Frame Natural wood
None $48

Oak or ash frame · plexiglass front · ready to hang

Print size

Ready to hang · plexiglass front · 250 gsm matte · FSC

Made to order · Free US shipping. Delivery times vary by destination.

Paper & printing

Printed on 250 gsm archival matte stock — acid-free, FSC-certified, museum grade. Pigment inks, fade-resistant for decades.

Printed image area 45×60 cm (18×24″), framed in oak or ash wood, 20 mm (0.79″) profile, with shatterproof plexiglass. Arrives framed, with a hanging kit, ready to hang.

Shipping & returns

Made to order. Each piece is printed for you after you order — nothing is pre-stocked.

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Returns & exchanges.

Damaged or misprinted? Free reprint or refund within 30 days of delivery.

Every piece is made to order — no pre-stock, no waste. That changes how returns work.

  • Damaged, defective, or the wrong item shipped to you: free reprint or refund. Email within 30 days with your order number and a photo.
  • Doesn’t fit when you try it on: we can’t offer free size exchanges (reprinting + reshipping means a full second production run). We do not accept returns or exchanges for size issues.
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  • Complete Editions ship as two separate packages (tee + print) and may arrive on different days. Tracking provided for both.
  • Refunds and store credit processed within 5–10 business days of confirmation.

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Design: 100% human-made by a professional graphic designer, from the real data specified on this page. Marketing photos may use an AI-composited mockup scene — the design itself is always the exact file we sell.

↑ 8,842 FT

4,737 vertical feet above the Yosemite Valley floor.

The granite face above Yosemite Valley. Its summit stood above the Ice Age glaciers.

— The Story

A granite face,still standing.

I am 8,842 feet above sea level — and I stand 4,737 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley. Ice Age glaciers scraped my flanks as recently as 20,000 years ago, but never reached my summit. I am Half Dome Granodiorite, formed about 85 million years ago when the Sierra Nevada batholith was rising.

The state geologist once called me "perfectly inaccessible." In 1875 George Anderson drilled holes, hammered in iron bolts of his own making, and stood on top. The cable route up my eastern shoulder has been open since 1919 — 400 feet of steel cables drilled into the granite. On June 28, 1957, three climbers finished a five-day climb of my 2,000-foot northwest face. Today a permit system caps the cables at 300 hikers a day.

The terrain on this piece is real Yosemite topography, drawn from USGS 3DEP elevation data.

The summit is the easy part. The granite remembers everything else.
— The dome, in numbers
↑ 8,842 FT · 4,737 FT ABOVE THE VALLEY FLOOR
HALF DOME GRANODIORITE · EXFOLIATION DOME · YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
Summit elevation8,842 ft2,695 m · USGS National Map
Rise above valley floor4,737 ft1,444 m above the Yosemite Valley floor
Northwest face2,000 ftvertical granite · first climbed 1957
Granite age~85 MaHalf Dome Granodiorite · Cretaceous
First ascent1875George Anderson · iron eyebolts
Cable route400 ftSteel cables · since 1919
— The object

How it's made.

The same archival print, framed in oak or ash and ready for the wall.

Paper

250 gsm (110 lb) archival matte paper, uncoated, natural white. FSC-certified.

Frame

Oak or ash wood, 20 mm (0.79 in) profile, in white, natural wood or black.

Front

Shatterproof plexiglass.

Arrives

Framed, with a hanging kit, ready to hang. Made to order.

— Provenance

Every line,traceable.

◉ Terrain

Archive ID HE-EA-26-001-HDM
Trophy ↑ 8,842 FT — 4,737 vertical feet above the Yosemite Valley floor.
Terrain Half Dome · 37.7459 · -119.5332 · North America
Source USGS 3DEP · 10 m DEM
Dataset / version USGS_3DEP_2024_v1 · 10 m DEM · GeoTIFF
Resolution 10 m horizontal · ≈0.82 m RMSE vertical (3DEP 1/3 arc-second, CONUS)
Contour interval Source: USGS 3DEP · 10 m DEM · Rendered: 100 ft
Projection EPSG:4326 · WGS84 datum

◉ Method

Extraction QGIS 3.34 · contour extraction from USGS 3DEP DEM
Editing Human vector cleanup in Illustrator · no smoothing algorithms applied
License USGS public, open and government-hosted · attribution: U.S. Geological Survey, 3DEP.
AI use None in the terrain. No generative models, no style-transfer, no AI autocomplete, no automated contour simplification — at any stage of extraction or editing.
Verification Cross-referenced with USGS National Map and OpenStreetMap (2024)
Issue 04 · Spring 2026
Provenance Verify this Archive ID →
— The gift

Made to be received.

Built to be opened slowly. A considered piece for someone who knows the place — or wants to remember it.

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A considered terrain piece for someone who knows the place — or wants to remember it.

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