Notch Mountain (Utah)

Notch Mountain
Notch Mountain
	Southwest aspect, from Mount Watson
Highest point
Elevation	11,263 ft (3,433 m)
Prominence	803 ft (245 m)
Parent peak	Mount Watson (11,521 ft)
Isolation	1.69 mi (2.72 km)
Coordinates	40°42′24″N110°56′53″W / 40.7066737°N 110.9481361°W
Geography
	Notch Mountain Location in Utah Notch Mountain Notch Mountain (the United States)
Country	United States of America
State	Utah
County	Summit
Parent range	Uinta Mountains ; Rocky Mountains
Topo map	USGS Mirror Lake
Geology
Rock age	Late Precambrian
Rock type	Quartz arenite
Climbing
Easiest route	class 2+ scrambling

Last updated December 08, 2024

Notch Mountain is an 11,263-foot-elevation (3,433-meter) mountain summit in Summit County, Utah, United States.

Description

Notch Mountain is located 50 miles (80 km) east of Salt Lake City in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.^[2] It is situated in the western Uinta Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains north into headwaters of the Weber River and south into headwaters of the Provo River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,100 feet (335 meters) above Wall Lake (source of the Provo River) in 0.75 mile (1.2 km). Access to the mountain is via the Mirror Lake Highway and hiking the 10-mile Notch Mountain Trail which passes through "The Notch", but does not lead to the summit.^[4] The Notch is a 10,621-foot-elevation gap between the 11,263-ft east peak and the 11,258-ft west peak.^[5]^[6] The mountain's descriptive toponym was officially adopted in 1932 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.^[7]

Geology

Notch Mountain is composed of metasedimentary rock of the Mount Watson Formation. Fluvial sediment processes deposited a sequence of nearly white quartz arenite and subarkose interbedded with minor amounts of pale-red arkosic arenite and grayish-green shale during the Late Precambrian.^[8] The Uintas were uplifted during the Laramide orogeny about 70 to 50 million years ago. Numerous glacial cycles during the Quaternary Period sculpted the mountain and scoured the surrounding land forming many depressions that are now lakes.

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Notch Mountain is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold snowy winters and mild summers.^[9] Tundra climate characterizes the summit and highest slopes. The months of July through early October offer the most favorable weather to visit the mountain.^[4]

Gallery

West Notch Mountain (11,258 ft)
View from Mount Watson looking northeast toward Notch Mountain

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References

1 2 3 4 "Notch Mountain - 11,263' UT". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
1 2 "Notch Mountain, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
↑ "Notch Mountain". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2024-06-10.
1 2 Steve Mann, 100 Hikes in Utah, The Mountaineers Books, 2001, ISBN 9780898867589, p. 30.
↑ "The Notch". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2024-06-10.
↑ "West Notch Mountain, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
↑ United States Board on Geographic Names, Decisions of the United States Geographic Board, October 5, 1932, p. 21.
↑ Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Lexicon of New Formal Geologic Names of the United States 1981–1985, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983, p. 211.
↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . ISSN 1027-5606. S2CID 9654551.

External links

Notch Mountain: weather forecast
Notch Mountain Trail: US Forest Service

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[loj-1] 1 2 3 4 "Notch Mountain - 11,263' UT". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.

[peakbagger-2] 1 2 "Notch Mountain, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.

[gnis-3] "Notch Mountain". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2024-06-10.

[Mann-4] 1 2 Steve Mann, 100 Hikes in Utah, The Mountaineers Books, 2001, ISBN 9780898867589, p. 30.

[gnis2-5] "The Notch". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2024-06-10.

[peakbagger2-6] "West Notch Mountain, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2024-06-10.

[Board-7] United States Board on Geographic Names, Decisions of the United States Geographic Board, October 5, 1932, p. 21.

[8] Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Lexicon of New Formal Geologic Names of the United States 1981–1985, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983, p. 211.

[Peel-9] Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . ISSN 1027-5606. S2CID 9654551.

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