Uinta Rock: A Guide to Climbing on the Mirror Lake Scenic Byway / 2004 / Nathan Smith, Paul Tusting
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (UWCNF). The second day we will travel from Vernal over the Diamond Mountain Plateau in the eastern Uintas into Browns Park. More recently the tower has become a rock climbers' mecca. Jordan Crater (35), BLM, Oregon (N43˚8' W117˚22'), is a 4,000-year-old caldera to the north of Upper Cow Lake. Bridger NF RNAs include Swift Creek RNA (N42˚44⠙ W110˚49⠙), customer Canyon and Periodic Spring (site 9). It has outstanding examples of coniferous, riparian, and montane forb communities. Also nearby just to the north is Alton Front RNA (N42˚46⠙ W110˚54⠙), which includes Anderson and Blaney Canyons and is in the Douglas-fir-shrubland-sagebrush grassland transition (site 9). South Rim NRT, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming (N44˚43⠙ W110˚29⠙), is a nine-mile trail which follows the South Rim of Yellowstone Canyon near Yellowstone Falls (site 67). It begins at the bridge over the Yellowstone River above the Upper Falls and follows the canyon rim past Upper Falls, Lower Falls, and Artist Point, ending at Point Sublime. Deep Creek NRT, Lewis and Clark NF, Montana (site 62) is an 18.5-mile figure 8 loop trail beginning (N47˚2⠙ W111˚4⠙) south of Logging Creek Campground on Forest Highway 839 about 50 miles south of Great Falls, passing Blankenbaker Flats and Deep Creek Ridge. Refuge Point Ski Trail NRT, Gallatin NF, Montana (N44˚52⠙ W111˚21⠙), begins on US 287 at the upper end of Earthquake Lake (site 24). This is a download the meeting place for review in 1959. Obsidian Cliff  (site 12), Yellowstone NP, Wyoming (N44˚49⠙ W110˚44⠙)  is located on the Grand Loop Road 13 miles south of Mammoth Hot Springs and just north of Beaver Lake. The dark volcanic glass found in Yellowstone was highly prized and extensively traded in prehistoric times to locations as far away as Ohio and Michigan. For the past 12,000 years, the site has been quarried, with as much as 91 percent of the obsidian found in archaeological sites in the western US coming from the park. The cliff itself is 200 feet high and one-half mile long. Nearby Obsidian Cliff Kiosk (1931) was one of the first wayside exhibits in the National Park System. 198.5 0.6 Uintah County Line, entering Ballard, Utah. They should. The Great Basin is the perfect place to be disorien- tated and reoriented.17 As your guide, I offer an insider-outsider perspective. Of the many notable features of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem is its intact wildlife and large mammal populations. One of the download wildlife migration corridors in North America begins at the upper Green River valley in Wyoming and heads north through the Bridger and Teton NFs to the National Elk Refuge and Grand Teton NP north of Jackson. Archaeological evidence indicates that this migration of pronghorn has been ongoing for 6,000 years. The pronghorn leave the deep snows of Jackson Hole and head south each fall, returning in the spring. The pronghorn use specially constructed overpasses on US 191 at Trappers Point, Wyoming which reduces the risk of vehicle collisions. There are two overpasses, six underpasses, and eight-foot- high barrier fencing to channel the animals to crossing points. The corridor follows the Green River north to where it comes close to the Gros Ventre River, then follows the Gros Ventre downstream to Jackson Hole. National trail system in the Greater Yellowstone subsection of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion includes the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail site at Gates of the Mountains, Holter Lake, described above, and sections of the Continental Divide NST. Sections of the 3,100-mile trail traverse the Gallatin NF, US Sheep Experiment Station, and Targhee NF in the Greater Yellowstone ecoregion. Peak surface has pdf by the lowering and tilting of the eastern Uintas.