The Thunderer (Wyoming)

The Thunderer

From Soda Butte
Elevation 10,495 ft (3,199 m) [1]
Location
Location Yellowstone National Park,
Park County, Wyoming, USA
Range Absaroka Range
Topo map Abiathar Peak

The Thunderer el. 10,495 feet (3,199 m) is a mountain peak in the northest section of Yellowstone National Park in the Absaroka Range. The Thunderer, named by members of the Arnold Hague Geological Survey of 1885 for it propensity to attract thunderstorms is a long high ridge just north of Mount Norris. Prior to 1885, the peak was considered just a high ridge extending north from Mount Norris.[2] The Thunderer is easily visible from the northest entrance road as it passes up the Soda Butte Creek canyon.

The north end of the ridge can be reached via the 7.4 miles (11.9 km) Thunderer Cutoff Trail. The trailhead is located just opposite the Pebble Creek Campground on the northeast entrance road. This trail passes thru Chaw Pass to connect with the Cache Creek trail which parallels the southeast face of The Thunderer ridge.[3]

Images of The Thunderer
January 2010, Mount Norris at right  

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "The Thunderer". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1595476. Retrieved 2010-01-31. 
  2. ^ Whittlesey, Lee (1996). Yellowstone Place Names. Gardiner, MT: Wonderland Publishing Company. p. 250. ISBN 1599717166. 
  3. ^ Schneider, Bill (2003). Hiking Yellowstone National Park. Guilford, CT: Falcon Press. pp. 161–163. ISBN 0762725397. 
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