Some names of Salt Lake County peaks

[Scott Patterson]

Here are the names of the following peaks from the Wasatch Mountain Club Lists (which have been in use for many years) and the book Hiking the Wasatch:

http://www.amazon.com/Hiking-The-Wasatc ... 0874806283

10292 is "Rocky Mouth Canyon Peak":

http://www.listsofjohn.com/peak/18370

10026 is "Guardsman Peak":

http://www.listsofjohn.com/peak/18456

Some lists (i.e Summitpost and Peakbagger) say that Peak 10420 is "Mount Venture", but I'm not sure where that name comes from:

http://www.listsofjohn.com/peak/18331

[John Kirk]

I'll try to get these updated soon - is there anywhere I can view the Wasatch Mountain Club Lists online?

It would be nice to put up custom lists for this.

[Scott Patterson]

Peakbagger does have the same list as the one in the guidebook (the Wasatch Mountain Club uses 200' for ranked peaks on their lists):

http://www.peakbagger.com/list.aspx?lid=21352

The names on that list are the exact same ones as in the guidebook/Wasatch Mountain Club list, with the exceptions of #15 and #31. #15 is known as Upper Bells Peak rather than Big Horn on the WMC list. #31 is known as Silver Peak rather than Silver Benchmark. As far as Big Horn vs Upper Bells Peak, I don't know which name has been in usage longer, but both names are used. The earliest I can find the Big Horn name published is from the book Hiker's Guide to Utah, published in 1983. The Upper Bells Peak name is on Wasatch Mountain Club list in The Rambler at least back into the mid-1980's as well, and is published in their 1988 guidebook.

There are list I can find on the WMC website, but they are listed by difficulty and area rather than elevation (other than the one in the WMC guidebook in the link above; that has all the 10ers listed by elevation).

Here's an example:

http://www.wasatchmountainclub.org/hike ... atings.pdf

This particular one doesn't have the two peaks listed though, since they are obscure.

It does have some other names that could be added to LOJ:

http://listsofjohn.com/peak/20529

This one (Peak 7500), for example is Perkins Peak. On the list and you can see it in the Foothills section of the linked list, though it appears on the list as being 7490'.

Circle All Peak (8707) is another one on the list above, but which is not on LOJ. It's unranked though. Same with Hounds Tooth.

Incidentally, this peak below is actually known as Big Beacon:

http://listsofjohn.com/peak/20984

USGS maps say Mount Wire, but no one I know of uses that name. All locals (at least all I know of) and guidebooks (and the list in the link above) call the mountain Big Beacon. It might be good to mention the alternate name?

Anyway, I don't know where to find all the lists online (I am not a member anymore and when I was before they had anything online-I moved to Colorado 13 years ago), but the list are (or were back when I was a member) periodically posted in their magazines. I could easily scan one for you, or scan the list from the guidebook.

[John Kirk]

I see they have the Rambler Issues up from March 2005-Present. Could take a while to parse through those. I've sent an email to info@WasatchMountainClub.org. I'll let you know what their response is, otherwise, a scanned copy would be appreaciated.

John

[Scott Patterson]

Here's a scan from a 1988 version showing the names (including unofficial ones) of the Wasatch 10.000 foot peaks (including the ones in the original message):



PS, please excuse the highlighting. That was the old way of keeping track of things before the internet logs.

An interesting note is Sunrise Peak/O'Sullivan Peak:

http://www.listsofjohn.com/peak/18135

In the past, USGS maps had the peak un-named, but locals and local maps (Including Hiking the Wasatch) always called it Sunrise Peak (Sunset Peak is on the same ridge, but at the east end).

New USGS maps call the peak O'Sullivan, but local maps and sources had been calling it Sunset for decades. I'm not sure where the name O'Sullivan came from.

[John Kirk]

Haven't received a response yet from WMC. Got the 10k list updated with names from Hiking the Wasatch.