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Alaska Basin
Alaska Basin is a subalpine basin on the west slopes of the Teton Range, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Located on the western border of Grand Teton National Park, Alaska Basin is within the Jedediah Smith Wilderness of Caribou-Targhee National Forest. The drainage for the basin is to the northwest along Teton Creek through Teton Canyon. Access into the basin is by trail only and the basin is bisected by the Teton Crest Trail which connects Mount Meek Pass Mount Meek Pass is a pedestrian mountain pass located in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The pass is situated at above sea level and is accessed by way of the Teton Crest Trail and is immediately east o ... to the south with Hurricane Pass to the north. The Alaska Basin Trail also enters Alaska Basin and connects with the Teton Crest Trail near Sunset Lake. Alaska Basin can also be accessed from the west by starting at the Teton Canyon campground. From there the hike to the summ ...
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Teton Crest Trail
The Teton Crest Trail is a long hiking trail in the U.S. state of Wyoming that extends from Phillips Pass, on the border of Bridger Teton and Caribou-Targhee National Forests, to String Lake in Grand Teton National Park. ''Backpacker Magazine'' calls the Trail one of the "Best Hikes Ever," with "mesmerizing and constant views of jagged peaks." Beginning in the south, the Teton Crest Trail can be accessed in several ways. From inside the National Park, the Granite Canyon Trail provides a gradual ascent into the Range, where it connects with the TCT. The Trail is most easily accessed by riding the Jackson Hole Aerial Tram, which transports sightseers and hikers from the Teton Village Resort to the top of Rendezvous Mountain. From outside the Park, the Teton Crest Trail can be accessed via the Phillips Pass Trail, one of several routes through adjacent National Forest lands. Continuing from the south, it is a trek to String Lake, passing in and out of Bridger-Teton National ...
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Landforms Of Teton County, Wyoming
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are the fou ...
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Alaska Basin Cooper
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory to the east; it also shares a maritime border with the Russian Federation's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west, just across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. It represents the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and the most sparsely populated state, but by far the continent's most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with a ...
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Sunset Lake (Teton County, Wyoming)
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Alaska Basin Trail
The Alaska Basin Trail is a long hiking trail in Grand Teton National Park and Bridger-Teton National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The trail begins at a junction on the Death Canyon Trail near the Death Canyon Barn and climbs steeply to Static Peak Divide. From the divide, the trail soon splits with a western branch descending into Alaska Basin and the eastern trail (also known as the Alaska Basin Shelf Trail) continuing north to junction with the Teton Crest Trail The Teton Crest Trail is a long hiking trail in the U.S. state of Wyoming that extends from Phillips Pass, on the border of Bridger Teton and Caribou-Targhee National Forests, to String Lake in Grand Teton National Park. ''Backpacker Magazine' .... There are no camping zones on the trail within Grand Teton National Park, however in National Forest lands within Alaska Basin, camping is permitted anywhere more than away from lakes, though no open fires are allowed. The Alaska Basin Trail is oftentimes used ...
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Hurricane Pass
Hurricane Pass is a pedestrian mountain pass located in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Situated at approximately above sea level, the pass can be accessed from the south by way of the Teton Crest Trail or from the north via the South Fork Cascade Canyon Trail. From Jenny Lake the roundtrip hike is with a elevation gain. Schoolroom Glacier is from the pass. Views of the west slopes of several of the highest Teton Range peaks as well as Alaska Basin Alaska Basin is a subalpine basin on the west slopes of the Teton Range, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Located on the western border of Grand Teton National Park, Alaska Basin is within the Jedediah Smith Wilderness of Caribou-Targhee National F ... and Battleship Mountain in Caribou-Targhee National Forest are available at the pass. References Mountain passes of Wyoming Mountain passes of Teton County, Wyoming {{wyoming-geo-stub ...
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Mount Meek Pass
Mount Meek Pass is a pedestrian mountain pass located in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The pass is situated at above sea level and is accessed by way of the Teton Crest Trail and is immediately east of Mount Meek. Mount Meek Pass is more than from the nearest trailhead. To the south of the pass lies Death Canyon Shelf Death Canyon Shelf is a narrow plateau located in Grand Teton National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The plateau extends from Fox Creek Pass to Mount Meek Pass, a distance of almost . The Death Canyon Shelf parallels much of Death Canyon to th ... within Grand Teton National Park, while to the north can be found the region known as Alaska Basin, which is in Caribou-Targhee National Forest. References Mountain passes of Wyoming Mountain passes of Teton County, Wyoming {{wyoming-geo-stub ...
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Teton Canyon
Teton or The Tetons may refer to: * Teton Basin or Teton Valley, today's names of historic trapper meeting and battle site (1832) *Teton Range, part of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming **Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in the Teton Range ***Grand Teton National Park, the United States National Park situated around the range **Teton Pass, a high mountain pass located at the southern end of the Teton Range *Teton River (Idaho), a river near the Teton Range **Teton Dam, a dam in the Teton River that collapsed soon after it was built *Teton River (Montana) * Teton Sioux Indian Tribe or Titonwan and Lakota *Teton Gravity Research Places *Teton, Idaho *Teton, South Dakota *Teton County, Montana *Teton County, Idaho *Teton County, Wyoming Teton County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 23,331. Its county seat is Jackson. Its west boundary line is also the Wyoming state boundary shared with Idaho and the southern tip o ... ...
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Teton Range
The Teton Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in North America. It extends for approximately in a north–south direction through the U.S. state of Wyoming, east of the Idaho state line. It is south of Yellowstone National Park and most of the east side of the range is within Grand Teton National Park. One theory says the early French voyageurs named the range ' ("the three nipples") after the breast-like shapes of its peaks. Another theory says the range is named for the Teton Sioux (from Thítȟuŋwaŋ), also known as the Lakota people.Ullrich, Jan. (2008). ''New Lakota Dictionary''. Lakota Language Consortium. It is likely that the local Shoshone people once called the whole range ', meaning "many pinnacles". The principal summits of the central massif, sometimes referred to as the Cathedral Group, are Grand Teton (), Mount Owen (), Teewinot (), Middle Teton () and South Teton (). Other peaks in the range include Mount Moran (), Mount Wister (), Buck Mounta ...
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Teton Creek
Teton or The Tetons may refer to: * Teton Basin or Teton Valley, today's names of historic trapper meeting and battle site (1832) *Teton Range, part of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming **Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in the Teton Range ***Grand Teton National Park, the United States National Park situated around the range **Teton Pass, a high mountain pass located at the southern end of the Teton Range *Teton River (Idaho), a river near the Teton Range **Teton Dam, a dam in the Teton River that collapsed soon after it was built *Teton River (Montana) * Teton Sioux Indian Tribe or Titonwan and Lakota *Teton Gravity Research Places *Teton, Idaho *Teton, South Dakota *Teton County, Montana *Teton County, Idaho *Teton County, Wyoming Teton County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 23,331. Its county seat is Jackson. Its west boundary line is also the Wyoming state boundary shared with Idaho and the southern tip o ... ...
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