Parsons died in 1914, and in memorial the Sierra Club established a fund to build a club meeting house, library and headquarters in Yosemite. Parsons was heavily involved in the losing fight against the flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley to provide a municipal water source for San Francisco. The Parsons lodge is a memorial to Edward Taylor Parsons, a New Yorker who joined the Sierra Club about 1900, and who eventually became the club’s director from 1905 to 1914. A path winds to the bridge below and continues on to the Tuolumne Meadows Visitor Center. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soda Springs-carbonated, cold water bubbling out of the ground-is protected within a log enclosure. Walk along the gravel road and pass the locked gate (signed Glen Aulin and Soda Springs).
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