Pilot Peak Wyoming
by Lisa Holland-Gillem
Title
Pilot Peak Wyoming
Artist
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Pilot Peak (elevation 11,699 feet) is one of Greater Yellowstone's most stiking and famous landmarks, on par with the Grand Teton itself. The most celebrated view of Pilot is from Clarks Fork valley, above which it rises like a wedding cake nearly 5,000 vertical feet in steep concentric bands of lava and breccia to a spike-like summit. It is the quintessential mountain peak. Ferdinand Hayden wrote that Pilot "is visible for so great a distance from every side that it forms an excellent landmark for the wandering miner, and thus its appropriate name of Pilot Peak."
Yet, while the Grand Teton stands stands eminently visible in a relatively isolated range with large adjacent valleys, Pilot Peak is mostly shrouded by a complex range of ridges and high peaks. In fact, Pilot Peak is visible to valley travelers only from the middle Clarks Fork, where it dominates the head of the valley. It is not at all visible from valley locations in Yellowstone Park or anywhere in the periphery of the ecosystem. It is not even visible from Cooke City, lower Clarks Fork canyon, or Dead Indian Pass.
Source: www.selectpeaks.com/
Featured in the following FAA groups:
07-26-14: Appreciating Works From All Mediums
07-26-14: Pleasing The Eye
07-26-14: Google Gallery
07-27-14: Amateur Photographers
07-28-14: The World We See
07-28-14: Images That Excite You
07-30-14: All Natural Scenery Landscapes
08-03-14: The Niche
08-18-14: AAA Images
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July 22nd, 2014
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Comments (21)
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Hi Chuck-- thank you very much for the feature in AAA Images, it is greatly appreciated!
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Robert, thank you very much for featuring this image in your wonderful group The Niche!
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Thank you Jens, for the feature in your FAA group All Natural Scenery Landscapes!
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Thank you so very much, Dear Svetlana, for featuring this image in The World We See!
Lee Piper
Beautiful work!! f/l
Lisa Holland-Gillem replied:
Thank you Lee, I appreciate it. This is truly a beautiful view, to me one of the loveliest places I've ever seen. :)
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Dear Jay, thank you very much for the feature in your wonderful group Amateur Photographers!
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Hi Gene, thank you very much for the feature in your FAA group Google Gallery-- it is much appreciated!
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Thank you so much Stefon, for featuring Pilot Peak in your FAA group Appreciating Works From All Mediums!