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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 ...
The Raft River Mountains are the southeast edge of the Columbia Basin (green) in the small northwest Utah portion of the Great Basin Divide. The Great Basin side (tan) of the range is in the Northern Great Salt Lake Desert Watershed (formerly of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville).
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.
The mountain is located southeast of Yost, west of Snowville and south of Malta, Idaho in the Raft River Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of Sawtooth National Forest. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The northern slopes of Bull Mountain are drained by tributaries of the Raft River , a tributary of the Snake River , and the southern slopes drain into ...
Twenty mountains exceed 12,000 feet (3,700 m), with the highest being Wind River Peak at 13,192 feet (4,021 m). Perhaps the most visited area within the wilderness and the entire Wind River Range is the Cirque of the Towers due to the impressive granitic mountains and sheer cliffs which attract climbers from all over the world. Overuse has led ...
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.
Pingora Peak (11,889 ft (3,624 m)) is a prominent granite peak in the U.S. state of Wyoming.The peak is one of the pinnacles that forms the Cirque of the Towers.Pingora Peak is in the Popo Agie Wilderness and part of the Wind River Range within the greater Shoshone National Forest.
Finis Mitchell (November 14, 1901 – November 13, 1995) was an American mountaineer and forester based in Wyoming.During the Great Depression, he and his wife stocked lakes in the Wind River Range with over 2.5 million trout.