Continental Divide Trail, Temple Lake, Wind River Range, Bridger-Teton NF, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, USA.

On the Continental Divide Trail below Temple Pass, see Temple Lake in Bridger Wilderness, Wind River Range, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, USA. At left is the sharp point of East Temple Peak. The Continental Divide follows the crest of the "Winds". We backpacked to Big Sandy Lake Campground (11 miles round trip with 1000 feet gain). A great day hike took us from Big Sandy Lake to Clear Lake and Deep Lake below East Temple Peak then loop back via Temple Lake, Miller Lake, and Rapid Lake (7.5 miles, 1060 ft gain) on the Continental Divide Trail. Mostly composed of granite batholiths formed deep within the earth over 1 billion years ago, the Wind River Range is one of the oldest mountain ranges in North America. These granite monoliths were uplifted, exposed by erosion, then carved by glaciers 500,000 years ago to form cirques and U-shaped valleys. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.

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On the Continental Divide Trail below Temple Pass, see Temple Lake in Bridger Wilderness, Wind River Range, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, USA. At left is the sharp point of East Temple Peak. The Continental Divide follows the crest of the "Winds". We backpacked to Big Sandy Lake Campground (11 miles round trip with 1000 feet gain). A great day hike took us from Big Sandy Lake to Clear Lake and Deep Lake below East Temple Peak then loop back via Temple Lake, Miller Lake, and Rapid Lake (7.5 miles, 1060 ft gain) on the Continental Divide Trail. Mostly composed of granite batholiths formed deep within the earth over 1 billion years ago, the Wind River Range is one of the oldest mountain ranges in North America. These granite monoliths were uplifted, exposed by erosion, then carved by glaciers 500,000 years ago to form cirques and U-shaped valleys. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.