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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 ...
Pingora Peak is a popular climb for mountaineers who visit the cirque Cirque of the Towers (USGS) Pingora Peak rises above Lonesome Lake. The Cirque of the Towers is located in the Wind River Range Wyoming, U.S., part of which is in the Bridger Wilderness in Bridger-Teton National Forest, while the remainder is in the Popo Agie Wilderness in Shoshone National Forest.
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]
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.
Mitchell Peak (12,487 feet (3,806 m)) is located in the southern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming.Mitchell Peak is on the southern side of the Cirque of the Towers, a popular climbing area. [3]
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 (1,200 m) lower than mountains around it.
The peak is the emblematic geographical feature of the remote Wind River Range and is set seven miles west of the Continental Divide. [5] It is situated in the Bridger Wilderness on land managed by Bridger-Teton National Forest.
Mount Bonneville (12,590 feet (3,840 m)) is located in the Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] The summit is located in the Bridger Wilderness of Bridger-Teton National Forest, immediately west of the Continental Divide.