Mount Woolsey

Mount Woolsey

Black Tooth Mountain, as viewed from the summit of Cloud Peak. Mount Woolsey is to the immediate right of Black Tooth Mountain.
Highest point
Elevation 12,982 ft (3,957 m)[1]
Prominence 338 ft (103 m)[1]
Coordinates 44°24′04″N 107°10′36″W / 44.40111°N 107.17667°W / 44.40111; -107.17667Coordinates: 44°24′04″N 107°10′36″W / 44.40111°N 107.17667°W / 44.40111; -107.17667[2]
Geography
Mount Woolsey

Big Horn / Johnson counties, Wyoming, U.S.

Parent range Bighorn Mountains
Topo map USGS Cloud Peak
Climbing
First ascent 1933, W. B. Willcox et al[3]

Mount Woolsey (12,982 feet or 3,957 metres) is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming.[4] The peak is the third highest in the range after Cloud Peak, which is only 1.3 miles (2.1 km) to the south, and the summit is located in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest.[1] Black Tooth Mountain, the second highest mountain in the Bighorns, is an adjacent summit only .20 mi (0.32 km) to the northwest.[1] Mount Woolsey is on a knife-like ridge known as an arête and is connected to both Black Tooth Mountain and Cloud Peak by this ridge. Along the arête is another mountain peak known as The Innominate. A small glacier lies below the arête to the southeast of Mount Woolsey.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Woolsey, Wyoming". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  2. "Mount Woolsey". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  3. Willcox, W.B. "An American Tyrol, Climbs in the Bighorns 1933". American Alpine Club. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  4. Cloud Peak, WY (Map). TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps). Retrieved October 5, 2014.


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