Mount Millicent

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Mount Millicent
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North aspect
Highest point
Elevation 10,452 ft (3,186 m) [1] [2]
Prominence 192 ft (59 m) [1]
Parent peak Mount Wolverine [1]
Isolation 0.46 mi (0.74 km) [1]
Coordinates 40°35′26″N111°35′51″W / 40.5904837°N 111.5975384°W / 40.5904837; -111.5975384 [3]
Geography
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Mount Millicent
Location in Utah
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Mount Millicent
Mount Millicent (the United States)
CountryUnited States
State Utah
County Salt Lake
Parent range Wasatch Range [4]
Rocky Mountains
Topo map USGS Brighton
Geology
Rock age 33 Ma
Rock type Granodiorite [5] (Igneous rock) [2]
Climbing
Easiest route class 2+ scrambling [1]

Mount Millicent is a 10,452-foot-elevation (3,186-meter) summit in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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Description

Mount Millicent is located 20 miles (32 km) southeast of downtown Salt Lake City at the Brighton Ski Resort in the Wasatch–Cache National Forest. [4] The peak is set in the Wasatch Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into headwaters of Big Cottonwood Creek. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,700 feet (518 meters) above Brighton in one mile (1.6 km). The mountain is composed of granodiorite of the igneous Alta stock. [2] This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. [3] The mountain was listed and depicted as one of the principal peaks of the Rockies in a book published in 1916. [6]

Climate

Mount Millicent has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc), bordering on an Alpine climate (Köppen ET), with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. [7] Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter, and as thunderstorms in summer.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Millicent, Mount - 10,452' UT". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Miriam H. Bugden, Geology and Scenery of the Central Wasatch Range, Salt Lake and Summit Counties, Utah, Utah Geological Survey, 1991, ISBN   9781557913425, p. 12
  3. 1 2 "Mount Millicent". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  4. 1 2 "Mount Millicent, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  5. ↑ The Salt Lake Region, J. Cecil Alter, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932, p. 94.
  6. ↑ Edwin Legrand Sabin, The Peaks of the Rockies, Carson-Harper, 1916, pages 31, 35.
  7. ↑ Peel, M.C.; Finlayson, B.L. & McMahon, T.A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences . 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . Archived (PDF) from the original on December 2, 2019. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
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