Fremont Peak
— — a granite tooth above the lake country.
Not only on a wall.
“A long sharp granite summit on the spine of the Wind Rivers, third-highest in Wyoming, looking down on a country of small blue lakes. Bonneville Basin to one side, Titcomb Basin to the other. John C. Frémont climbed it in August 1842 and thought, briefly, that he had reached the highest point in the Rockies. The approach is long — twenty miles in from Elkhart Park — and the granite holds the morning light a long time after the lake country below has gone cold. from the studio
Fremont Peak, on ceramic.
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Fremont Peak stands at 13,745 feet (4,189 m) in the Wind River Range of west-central Wyoming, the third-highest summit in the state behind Gannett Peak and Mount Warren. It sits in Sublette County, on the boundary between the Bridger Wilderness of Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest. The Continental Divide passes through the summit ridge. Lieutenant John C. Frémont and Charles Preuss reached the top on 15 August 1842 during the first of Frémont's western expeditions, briefly believing it the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains.
The peak is built of Archean granite roughly 2.5 billion years old, part of the Wind River batholith that forms the core of the range. Glaciers have cut the summit into a long blade with steep east and west faces; Helen Glacier and Sacagawea Glacier hold on below the north side. The standard line is the southwest slope at about Class 3, with serious exposure near the top. The east face draws technical alpine climbers and the rock holds chalk long after the route is dry.
The standard approach starts at the Elkhart Park trailhead above Pinedale, a drive of about fifteen miles on Fremont Lake Road. From the trailhead, it is roughly twenty miles each way through the Pole Creek and Titcomb Basin trail system, with a base camp typical at Island Lake or Upper Titcomb Lake. Most parties take three to five days. The Bridger Wilderness requires no permit, but groups are capped at fifteen people. The reliable climbing window is mid-July through early September.