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Bridger Mountains (Montana)
The Bridger Range, also known as the Bridger Mountains, is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Montana in the United States. The range runs mostly in a north–south direction between Bozeman, Montana, Bozeman and Maudlow, Montana, Maudlow. It is separated from the Gallatin Range to the south by Bozeman Pass; from the Horseshoe Hills to the west by Dry Creek; from the Crazy Mountains to the east by the Shields River valley; and from the Big Belt Mountains to the north by Sixteen Mile Creek (Montana), Sixteen Mile Creek. The highest point in the Bridger Range is Sacagawea Peak (), which is visible to the northeast from Bozeman. Although the range is mostly in Gallatin County, Montana, Gallatin County, a small portion extends into Park County, Montana, Park County. Bozeman Pass, at an elevation of , is a narrow pass that lies between Bozeman and Livingston, Montana, Livingston. The entire range is within Gallatin National Forest. History The range is named after Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacagawea Peak
Sacagawea Peak is the highest mountain in the Bridger Range in south-western Montana. The peak is named for Sacagawea, a Lemhi Shoshone woman that accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Recreation The mountain is a popular hiking destination. The main trailhead starts at 7,788 feet and climbs 1,800 feet reaching the summit in 2 miles. The mountain holds snow in chutes through the early summer and local skiers often ski there through August. References Mountains of Montana Sacagawea {{GallatinCountyMT-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Bridger
James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, Animal trapping, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old Gabe in his later years. He was from the Bridger family of Virginia, English settlers who had arrived in North America in the early Colony of Virginia, colonial period. Bridger was of the second generation of American mountain men and pathfinders who followed the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. He participated in early expeditions into the west and mediated between Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes and westward-migrating European Americans, European-American settlers. By the end of his life, he had become the foremost explorer and frontiersmen in the American frontier, American Old West. He had conversational knowledge of French, Spanish, and several Indigenous languages of the Americas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridger Peak
Bridger may refer to: *Bridger (name) * Bridger Aerospace, headquartered in Montana, United States Places In the United States: * Bridger, Montana, town in Carbon County * Bridger, Gallatin County, Montana, census-designated place ** Bridger Bowl Ski Area * Bridger, South Dakota, census-designated place * Fort Bridger, Wyoming, census-designated place * Bridger Mountains (Wyoming) * Bridger Range (Montana) * Bridger Trail, emigration trail in Wyoming * Bridger Wilderness, in the Wind River Range, Wyoming * Bridger–Teton National Forest Bridger–Teton National Forest is located in western Wyoming, United States. The forest consists of , making it the third largest National forest (United States), National Forest outside Alaska. The forest stretches from Yellowstone National ..., Wyoming Other uses * Operation Bridger, a nationwide police protective security operation for Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Baldy (Gallatin County, Montana)
Mount Baldy may refer to: Mountains: * Mount Baldy (Arizona) * Mount San Antonio, California, usually referred to as Mount Baldy * Mount Baldy (Nevada) * Mount Baldy (Polk County, Oregon) * Mount Baldy, Mineral County, Montana * Mount Baldy (Beaver County, Utah) * Mount Baldy (Salt Lake County, Utah) * Mount Baldy (Alberta) * Mount Baldy, British Columbia, Canada - see Mount Baldy Ski Area * Baldy Mountain (Colfax County, New Mexico) * A nickname for Mont Ventoux in France Other uses: * Mount Baldy, California, small mountain community in San Bernardino county on the slopes of Mount San Antonio (Mount Baldy), sometimes called ''Mount Baldy Village'' * Mount Baldy (sand dune), the tallest sand dune on the southern shore of Lake Michigan See also * Mount Baldy Ski Lifts, a ski resort on Mount San Antonio in Los Angeles County, California * Mount Baldy Zen Center * South Baldy (New Mexico) South Baldy is the highest point of the Magdalena Mountains in central New Mexico, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Peak
Ross Peak is a mountain summit in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. Description Ross Peak is the fourth-highest peak in the Bridger Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. The peak is situated north of Bozeman in the Gallatin National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's east slope drains to Brackett Creek → Shields River → Yellowstone River, whereas the west slope drains to Ross Creek → East Gallatin River → Gallatin River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Ross Creek in . This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The mountain is named for Melvin Ross Sr. who settled in the area in 1864 and placed a flag at the summit which could be seen from many miles away. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saddle Peak (Montana)
Saddle Peak is a mountain summit in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. Description Saddle Peak is the sixth-highest peak in the Bridger Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. The peak is situated north of Bozeman in the Gallatin National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into tributaries of the East Gallatin River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Slushman Creek in . This mountain's descriptive toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, the mountain is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. Winter temperatures can drop below 0 °F with wind chill factors below −10 °F. Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter and as thunderstorms in summer. This climate supports the Bridger Bowl Ski Area imm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naya Nuki Peak
Naya Nuki Peak is a mountain summit in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. Description Naya Nuki Peak is the second-highest peak in the Bridger Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. The peak is situated north of Bozeman in the Gallatin National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's east slopes drains into tributaries of the Shields River, whereas the west slope drains into tributaries of the East Gallatin River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Fairy Lake in and above North Fork Brackett Creek in . This mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1987 by the United States Board on Geographic Names as proposed by Bozeman school child Kristin Anderson to honor the real-life Shoshoni girl named Naya Nuki who was a friend of Sacagawea, the Shoshone Indian scout on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardscrabble Peak
Hardscrabble Peak is a mountain summit in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. Description Hardscrabble Peak is the fourth-highest peak in the Bridger Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. The peak is situated north of Bozeman in the Gallatin National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's east slope drains to Fairy Creek → Flathead Creek → Shields River → Yellowstone River, whereas the west slope drains into tributaries of the East Gallatin River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Fairy Lake in . This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. "Hardscrabble" is land that is rocky or of poor quality. Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, the mountain is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. Winter temperatures can drop below 0 °F with wind chill factors below −10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomp Peak
Pomp Peak is a mountain summit in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. Description Pomp Peak is the third-highest peak in the Bridger Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch in great-circle distance, straight-line distance from the northernmost part of Western Can .... The peak is situated north of Bozeman, Montana, Bozeman in the Gallatin National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's east slope drains to Fairy Creek → Flathead Creek → Shields River → Yellowstone River, whereas the west slope drains to Reese Creek → Smith Creek → East Gallatin River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Fairy Lake in . This mountain's toponym was officially adopted on June 12, 2008, by the United States Board on Geographic Names to honor Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 until it Delta Air Lines–Northwest Airlines merger, merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010. The merger made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines Group#Merger proposals and plans, American Airlines–US Airways merger in 2013. Northwest was headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, near Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport. After World War II, it became dominant in the trans-Pacific market with a hub in Tokyo, Japan (initially Haneda Airport, later Narita International Airport). In response to United Airlines' 1985 acquisition of Pan Am's Pacific routes, Northwest paid $884 million to purchase Republic Airlines and then established fortress hubs at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Memphis International Airport. With this merger, NWA established the domestic network necessary to feed its well-established Pacific routes. Lackin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Airlines Flight 2
Northwest Airlines Flight 2 was a Lockheed Super Electra aircraft, registration NC17388, which crashed into the Bridger Mountains in Gallatin County, Montana, about northeast of Bozeman, on January 10, 1938. All ten people on board were killed in the accident, which was the first fatal crash of a Lockheed Super Electra and of a Northwest Airlines aircraft. Flight 2 was en route eastbound from Seattle to Chicago, with intermediate stops at Spokane, Butte, and Billings, Montana. The Monday afternoon flight had just left Butte and was flying over Belgrade when it diverted to the north to avoid a dust storm over Bozeman Pass. The first officer contacted the Northwest Airlines radio operator at 3:05 PM MST to advise that Flight 2 had reached the cruising altitude of at 2:53 PM. Ground witnesses reported that as it passed over the Bridger Mountain range (which at the point the aircraft passed over an elevation of approximately above sea level) the aircraft immediately dropped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bighorn Basin
The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States. It is bounded by the Absaroka Range on the west, the Pryor Mountains on the north, the Bighorn Mountains on the east, and the Owl Creek Mountains and Bridger Mountains (Wyoming), Bridger Mountains on the south. It is drained to the north by tributaries of the Bighorn River, which enters the basin from the south, through a gap between the Owl Creek and Bridger Mountains, as the Wind River (Wyoming), Wind River, and becomes the Bighorn as it enters the basin. The region is semi-arid, receiving only 6–10 in (15–25 cm) of rain annually. The largest cities in the basin include the Wyoming towns of Cody, Wyoming, Cody, Thermopolis, Wyoming, Thermopolis, Worland, Wyoming, Worland, and Powell, Wyoming, Powell. Sugar beets, pinto beans, sunflowers, barley, oats, corn and alfalfa hay are grown on irrigated farms in the region. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
