Mount Woolsey

Mountain in Wyoming, United States

Mount Woolsey

Location in Wyoming

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Mount Woolsey

Location in the United States

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LocationBig Horn / Johnson counties, Wyoming, U.S.Parent rangeBighorn MountainsTopo mapUSGS Cloud PeakClimbingFirst ascent1933, 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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mount Woolsey, Wyoming". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
^ "Mount Woolsey". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
^ Willcox, W.B. "An American Tyrol, Climbs in the Bighorns 1933". American Alpine Club. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
^ Cloud Peak, WY (Map). TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps). Retrieved October 5, 2014.