North America, United States, Wyoming, Peaks 10,822 and 10,852

Publication Year: 1959.

Peaks 10,822 and 10,852. From a camp in the north fork of Snowshoe Canyon, Julie Petersen, Jack Davis, and Silvia Prodan ascended on July 23 to the saddle between Peaks 10,822 and 10,894 from which, after climbing over the east summit, they reached the main summit of Peak 10,822, which they named Tripod Peak. They continued traversing south over intervening sub-peaks to Peak 10,852, which was also apparently a first ascent. It is interesting to note that on the first peak north of Peak 10,852 they discovered the disintegrated cairn built by T. M. Bannon exactly sixty years earlier during his surveying for the U.S.G.S. From the last summit they continued the ridge traverse back to the east, reaching point 10,238 before they descended to their camp.

Leigh Ortenburger