Pinedale Sawtooth Mountains
— — the ridge that cuts the sky into teeth.
Not only on a wall.
“Above Pinedale the Wind River Range rises in a long granite wall, and the southwestern shoulder of it carries a serrated skyline locals call the Sawtooth. The high points belong to the Bridger Wilderness, drained on the west side by the Green River. Sawtooth Peak itself sits in the same neighbourhood as the better-known summits north of Big Sandy. From the right pull-off on the Pinedale side the ridge reads exactly the way the name promises: a row of stone teeth bitten out of the blue. from the studio
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The place, in three passes.
The Wind River Range runs about a hundred miles from South Pass northwest toward the Gros Ventre, the high spine of west-central Wyoming. Its western slope drains the Green River and falls under the Bridger Wilderness, 428,169 acres designated by Congress in 1964 inside the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Pinedale, the town that anchors the western approach, sits at 7,175 feet in Sublette County. The sawtooth-edged ridges along the southern Winds are part of the same Precambrian granite batholith that holds Gannett Peak, the state high point at 13,809 feet.
The Winds are one of the largest exposed Precambrian granite ranges in the lower forty-eight, uplifted in the Laramide orogeny and carved hard by Pleistocene glaciation. The serrated skyline reads the way it does because the granite weathers along its joint planes, leaving narrow ridges with steep-sided notches between summits. The same geology produced Cirque of the Towers, the Titcomb Basin walls, and the long arêtes above Big Sandy Lake. Lichen colours the stone in patches of pale green and rust against a base of cold grey.
Pinedale is the main western trailhead town for the southern Winds, with the Elkhart Park, Boulder Lake, and Big Sandy approaches all reachable from US 191. The Sawtooth ridges themselves are off-trail backcountry; the standard public-viewing points are the overlooks on Skyline Drive above Elkhart Park and the pull-offs along the Boulder Lake road. The Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale runs the Green River Rendezvous each July. No day-use permits or fees apply to the Bridger Wilderness, but black bear food-storage rules govern any overnight stay above the trailheads.