Reids Peak
| Reids Peak | |
|---|---|
 East aspect | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 11,724 ft (3,573 m)[1] |
| Prominence | 670 ft (204 m)[1] |
| Parent peak | Bald Mountain (11,948 ft)[1] |
| Isolation | 0.59 mi (0.95 km)[2] |
| Coordinates | 40°42′23″N 110°54′45″W / 40.7063807°N 110.9124702°W[3] |
| Geography | |
  Reids Peak Location in Utah  Reids Peak Reids Peak (the United States) | |
| Country | United States of America |
| State | Utah |
| County | Summit |
| Parent range | Uinta Mountains Rocky Mountains |
| Topo map | USGS Mirror Lake |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Late Precambrian |
| Type of rock | Quartz arenite |
| Climbing | |
| Easiest route | class 2+ scrambling[1] |
Reids Peak is an 11,724-foot-elevation (3,573-meter) mountain summit in Summit County, Utah, United States.
Description[edit]
Reids Peak is located 50 miles (80 km) east of Salt Lake City in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.[2] It is situated in the western Uinta Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains north into headwaters of the Weber River.[2] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,300 feet (701 meters) above the Weber River in one mile (1.6 km). Access to the mountain is via the Mirror Lake Highway. The mountain was first named "Reeds Peak" in 1875, and the present spelling of the toponym was officially adopted in 1932 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[3] The peak is named after an early explorer of this region.[4] William "Toopeechee" Reed was an early pioneer of this region who founded Reed Trading Post in 1828, making this the first permanent non-Indian residence and business in what would become the State of Utah.
Geology[edit]
Reids Peak is composed of metasedimentary rock of the Mount Watson Formation.[5] Fluvial sediment processes deposited a sequence of nearly white quartz arenite and subarkose interbedded with minor amounts of pale-red arkosic arenite and grayish-green shale during the Late Precambrian.[6] The Uintas were uplifted during the Laramide orogeny about 70 to 50 million years ago. The area around Reids Peak and Bald Mountain became an ice cap during glaciation of the Ice age, transforming these peaks into nunataks.[7] Numerous glacial cycles during the Quaternary Period sculpted the peak and scoured the surrounding land forming many depressions that are now lakes. Viewed from the summit, as many as 70 lakes can be counted.[8]
Climate[edit]
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Reids Peak is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold snowy winters and mild summers.[9] Tundra climate characterizes the summit and highest slopes.
See also[edit]
Gallery[edit]
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North aspect of Reids Peak (center), with Bald Mountain (left). Kamas Lake in foreground. -
Reids Peak viewed from the top of Bald Mountain. -
Northeast aspect -
Southwest aspects of Reids Peak (left) and Bald Mountain (right) viewed from Lost Lake -
West aspect, from Reids Lake
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Reids Peak - 11,724' UT". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
- ^ a b c "Reids Peak, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
- ^ a b "Reids Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
- ^ United States Board on Geographic Names, Decisions of the United States Geographic Board, October 5, 1932, p. 24.
- ^ Utah Geological Survey, Retrieved 2024-06-09.
- ^ Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Lexicon of New Formal Geologic Names of the United States 1981–1985, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983, p. 211.
- ^ Wallace Walter Atwood, Glaciation of the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909, p. 12.
- ^ Commercial West, December 19, 1914, p. 40.
- ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. S2CID 9654551.
External links[edit]
- Reids Peak: weather forecast
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