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Index Peak

Rugged Broad Topped Mountain

Peak in Shoshone NF, Rocky Mountains near Cooke City, WY

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Often photographed together, Pilot Peak is the taller, pointed spire and Index Peak, the rugged broad topped shaped rampart.

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Index Peak, el. 10,709 feet (3,264 m), is a prominent mountain peak in the Absaroka Range in Park County, Wyoming. The peak is visible from US Route 212, the Beartooth Highway just east of the Northeast Entrance Station to Yellowstone National Park. Pilot Peak rises just south of Index Peak.

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Index Peak, showing erosion in bedded breccia and basalt sheets. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. ca. 1890. Photo 379 Joseph Paxson Iddings (USGS) Photo nos. 378-379 form a panorama published as Plate 28 in U.S. Geological Survey. Monograph 32, pt. 2. 1899. [Pilot Peak (left) and Index Peak (right) pictured below:]

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Glacial deposits (WYQg;0)

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