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A Shoshone encampment in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, photographed by W. H. Jackson, 1870 Green River Lakes and Squaretop Mountain [2] Titcomb Lakes Looking across the Bonneville Basin to Mount Bonneville and Raid Peak. The Wind River Range (or "Winds" for short) is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in western Wyoming in the ...
Mount Hooker (12,509 feet (3,813 m)) is located in the Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] Mount Hooker was named for Joseph Dalton Hooker, the prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer. [2]
Gannett Peak is the highest summit of the Wind River Range, the U.S. State of Wyoming, and the Central Rocky Mountains. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of Wyoming. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Sublette County, Wyoming, U.S. Parent range: Wind River Range: Topo map: USGS Squaretop Mountain: Geology; Rock type: Migmatite [4] Climbing; First ascent < 1921 by William Stroud [1] Easiest route: class 2 hiking [2] SE ledges
Wind River as part of the Boysen Reservoir near Thermopolis, Wyoming. Its headwaters are at Wind River Lake in the Rocky Mountains, near the summit of Togwotee Pass (pronounced TOH-guh-tee) and gathers water from several forks along the northeast side of the Wind River Range in west central Wyoming.
Mount Lander (12,623 ft (3,847 m)) is located in the central Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [4] Mount Lander is within the Wind River Indian Reservation.The Lander Glacier consists of three distinct glaciers on the north and west slopes of Mount Lander, with the westernmost glacier being the largest.
It is a hub from which three Wyoming Mountain Ranges radiate. The three separate directions – the Wind River Range to the southeast (Gannett Peak, 13,804 feet (4,207 m)), the Gros Ventre Range (Doubletop Peak, 11,720 feet (3,570 m)) to the west and the Absaroka Range to the north (Francs Peak, 13,153 feet (4,009 m)). The pass is 4,000 feet ...
Mount Sacagawea (13,575 ft (4,138 m)) is the eighth-highest peak in the U.S. state of Wyoming and the seventh-highest in the Wind River Range. [4] [5] It was named after Sacagawea, the young Lemhi Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter and guide.