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Watch Tower (mountain)

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Watch Tower
Watch Tower to left
Highest point
Elevation12,331 ft (3,758 m)[1]
Prominence246 ft (75 m)[1]
Coordinates42°46′27″N 109°14′04″W / 42.77417°N 109.23444°W / 42.77417; -109.23444[2]
Geography
Watch Tower is located in Wyoming
Watch Tower
Watch Tower
Location in Wyoming
Watch Tower is located in the United States
Watch Tower
Watch Tower
Location in the United States
LocationFremont and Sublette Counties, Wyoming, U.S.
Parent rangeWind River Range
Topo mapUSGS Lizard Head Peak

Watch Tower is a (12,331-foot (3,758 m)) mountain located in the southern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Watch Tower is on the west side of the Cirque of the Towers, a popular climbing area and is just southeast of Block Tower.[3] Watch Tower is immediately east of the Continental Divide.

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Transcription

We're here today at the Ute tower site where we just completed restoration of the Ute tower. A fire tower. The last remaining one in Utah. The Ute tower was first built, constructed and completed in 1937 and was operated as a fire lookout tower. It's the last remaining fire lookout tower in Utah. Well the Ute tower is really significant to the local communities. They look at this and are just over joyed with the fact that we decided to renovate this and restore it. And the main reason is that it represents such an important part of the history of the area. And many people have experiences either coming up and looking at it or being a part of working here, and seeing it, and it had widespread community support. They're just excited about the completion of the tower. The tower's made out of wood, douglas fir that they milled. And over time, snow collects and water collects at the base and so in 1967 they did an evaluation of the tower and found out that there was major wood rot in the bottom and that the structural beams of the tower basically could fall over. So they did that repair in the 1980's, and rededication in 1987, that same type of damage had been happening, and we did another evaluation in 2008 and found the same type of rot in all four of the bottom legs. So we closed down the tower for safety purposes, our structural engineer indicated that the tower could fall at any time. We didn't want people up inside of it or underneath it. Because of the safety hazard. So we closed it down in 2008 and then we've been searching for funding and finally they began renovation where they replaced basically all four of the legs on the bottom and some of the cross pieces. To be able to come up here, see this and get an understanding of what they were doing and why they were doing fire suppression, this is one of the best places in Utah to be able to get an experience with that. And you go up and walk up the narrow stairs, you get up to the top of the catwalk, you look around and see the view and just getting an appreciation that this is a very remote location with the only connection you have with the outside world is basically a telephone line. People coming up here and watching fires, being in a very remote area and getting a sense of that is so different than the world we live in that has cars, roads, telephone poles, cell phones, everything like that. This allows you to have appreciation for history that you can't get in other places.

Hazards

Encountering bears is a concern in the Wind River Range.[4] There are other concerns as well, including bugs, wildfires, adverse snow conditions and nighttime cold temperatures.[5]

Importantly, there have been notable incidents, including accidental deaths, due to falls from steep cliffs (a misstep could be fatal in this class 4/5 terrain) and due to falling rocks, over the years, including 1993,[6] 2007 (involving an experienced NOLS leader),[7] 2015[8] and 2018.[9] Other incidents include a seriously injured backpacker being airlifted near SquareTop Mountain[10] in 2005,[11] and a fatal hiker incident (from an apparent accidental fall) in 2006 that involved state search and rescue.[12] The U.S. Forest Service does not offer updated aggregated records on the official number of fatalities in the Wind River Range.

References

  1. ^ a b "Watch Tower, Wyoming". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  2. ^ "Watch Tower". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  3. ^ Lizard Head Peak, WY (Map). TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps). Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  4. ^ Staff (April 24, 2017). "Bear Safety in Wyoming's Wind River Country". WindRiver.org. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  5. ^ Ballou, Dawn (July 27, 2005). "Wind River Range condition update - Fires, trails, bears, Continental Divide". PineDaleOnline News. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  6. ^ Staff (1993). "Falling Rock, Loose Rock, Failure to Test Holds, Wyoming, Wind River Range, Seneca Lake". American Alpine Club. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  7. ^ MacDonald, Dougald (August 14, 2007). "Trundled Rock Kills NOLS Leader". Climbing. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  8. ^ Staff (December 9, 2015). "Officials rule Wind River Range climbing deaths accidental". Casper Star-Tribune. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  9. ^ Dayton, Kelsey (August 24, 2018). "Deadly underestimation". WyoFile News. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  10. ^ Funk, Jason (2009). "Squaretop Mountain Rock Climbing". Mountain Project. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  11. ^ Staff (July 22, 2005). "Injured man rescued from Square Top Mtn  - Tip-Top Search & Rescue helps 2 injured on the mountain". PineDaleOnline News. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  12. ^ Staff (September 1, 2006). "Incident Reports - September, 2006 - Wind River Search". WildernessDoc.com. Archived from the original on January 27, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2022.

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