Mount Hooker
Mount Hooker rises to 3,796 m in Wyoming. Roberts Mountain stands 3,889 m to the north, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Tower Peak, a peak 0.7 miles away. Wyoming Centennial Scenic Byway passes 28 miles off.
The story
Mount Hooker (12,509 feet (3,813 m)) is located in the Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Mount Hooker was named for Joseph Dalton Hooker, the prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer. The north and east slopes of Mount Hooker present some of the tallest and steepest vertical cliffs in Wyoming, and the peak is also remote, being more than 20 mi (32 km) from a road. The formidable 1,800-foot (550 m) north face of Mount Hooker was first climbed in 1964 by Yosemite Valley climber Royal Robbins, along with Dick McCracken and Charlie Raymond, who took over three days to scale the cliff face. In 2013, a team free climbed one pitch rated at class 5.14a, grade VI during a multiple-day ascent requiring five other pitches rated above 5.12.
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Wikidata Q16892443, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3796 m
How to reach it
- 28.2 mi off the Wyoming Centennial Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Tower Peak: 0.7 mi
- Pyramid Peak: 1.0 mi
- Musembeah Peak: 1.7 mi
- Dike Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Raid Peak: 2.0 mi
- Sharks Nose: 6.2 mi
- The Diving Board: 12.4 mi
- Suicide Point: 18.9 mi
- Little Brown Point: 19.6 mi
- Brown Cliffs: 20.6 mi
- North Fork Falls: 11.5 mi
- Bull Lake Creek Falls: 23.0 mi
- Middle Fork Falls: 23.2 mi
- Water slide: 24.5 mi
- Tayo Park: 16.8 mi
- Pow Wow: 23.4 mi
- New Fork: 23.2 mi
- Raised Bed Garden: 23.9 mi
- Bruce's Picnic Area: 24.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.6 miles of Mount Hooker. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roberts Mountain | N 6° | 3,889 m | 4.4 mi |
| Wolverine Peak | NNW 343° | 3,847 m | 9.3 mi |
| Mount Lander | NNW 337° | 3,846 m | 2.3 mi |
| Saddle Mountain | NNW 347° | 3,818 m | 9.0 mi |
| Washakie Peak | SE 138° | 3,811 m | 3.6 mi |
| Dog Tooth Peak | SE 136° | 3,800 m | 8.6 mi |
| Lizard Head Peak | SE 128° | 3,799 m | 6.9 mi |
| Halls Mountain | NW 323° | 3,798 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:52 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 20:17 | 21:00 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:39 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:46 | 16:01 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 10 | 13 | 26 | 37 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 51 | 39 | 25 | 13 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boulder Rearing STN, 22 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1600383 — Mount Hooker, Sublette County, Wyoming.
OpenStreetMap element node/356506258
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