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  CORRAL 
  PEAK 
  AND 
  WILLOW 
  CREEK 
  MOUNTAINS. 
  3St 
  

  

  but 
  its 
  highest 
  points 
  are 
  10,200 
  feet 
  high, 
  and 
  its 
  general 
  saddle-eleva- 
  

   tion 
  reaches 
  about 
  9,600 
  feet. 
  The 
  relative 
  height 
  of 
  the 
  ridge 
  is 
  about 
  

   2,200 
  feet 
  above 
  Troublesome 
  Eiver. 
  

  

  CORRAL 
  PEAK 
  CLUSTER. 
  

  

  Corral 
  Peak 
  and 
  White 
  Face 
  Peak 
  are 
  the 
  principal 
  points 
  in 
  the 
  

   Corral 
  Peak 
  Cluster. 
  The 
  two 
  peaks 
  are 
  3 
  miles 
  distant 
  from 
  each 
  

   other 
  and 
  connected 
  by 
  a 
  saddle 
  which 
  is 
  from 
  800 
  to 
  900 
  feet 
  lower 
  

   than 
  the 
  peaks, 
  which 
  show 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  11,333 
  feet. 
  Corral 
  Peak, 
  

   the 
  most 
  northern 
  of 
  the 
  two, 
  is 
  particularly 
  sharp 
  and 
  rugged, 
  and 
  has 
  

   as 
  well 
  as 
  White 
  Face 
  Peak 
  a 
  thick 
  capping 
  of 
  eruptive 
  basalt. 
  From 
  

   Corral 
  Peak 
  the 
  slope 
  descends 
  very 
  gradually 
  for 
  6 
  miles 
  in 
  a 
  northern 
  

   direction 
  where 
  a 
  low 
  saddle 
  exists 
  and 
  tributaries 
  from 
  Willis 
  Creek 
  

   and 
  the 
  Troublesome 
  have 
  almost 
  a 
  united 
  source. 
  That 
  saddle 
  has 
  

   about 
  9,000 
  feet 
  elevation, 
  and 
  from 
  it 
  the 
  southern 
  spurs 
  from 
  Park 
  

   View 
  Mountain 
  begin 
  to 
  rise, 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  mile 
  very 
  gradual, 
  and 
  after 
  

   that 
  change 
  very 
  suddenly 
  into 
  an 
  abrupt 
  ascent. 
  

  

  The 
  two 
  peaks. 
  Corral 
  and 
  White 
  Face, 
  form 
  a 
  concentric 
  point, 
  from 
  

   which 
  numerous 
  long 
  spurs 
  diverge 
  in 
  almost 
  every 
  direction, 
  to 
  the 
  

   Troublesome 
  and 
  Willow 
  Creek 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  toward 
  Corral 
  Creek 
  and 
  

   Grand 
  Eiver. 
  Many 
  streams, 
  in 
  particular 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  eastern 
  slope, 
  

   have 
  washed 
  deep 
  ravines, 
  and 
  in 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  tributaries 
  to 
  the 
  Willow 
  

   Creek, 
  at 
  least 
  the 
  canon 
  features 
  are 
  strongly 
  expressed. 
  

  

  From 
  White 
  Face 
  a 
  spur 
  runs 
  directly 
  eastward, 
  toward 
  the 
  junction 
  of 
  

   Willow 
  Creek 
  and 
  Grand 
  River, 
  gradually 
  lowering 
  from 
  11,493 
  feet 
  to 
  

   10,000 
  feet 
  altitude. 
  

  

  During 
  a 
  distance 
  of 
  4 
  miles, 
  the 
  southern 
  face 
  of 
  that 
  spur 
  presents 
  

   toward 
  the 
  Grand 
  Eiver, 
  in 
  three 
  subspurs, 
  such 
  remarkable 
  terrace 
  

   features, 
  and 
  so 
  peculiar 
  in 
  their 
  characteristics, 
  that 
  the 
  causes 
  of 
  their 
  

   structure 
  have 
  prompted 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Archibald 
  Marvin, 
  assistant 
  geol- 
  

   ogist, 
  to 
  make 
  them 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  a 
  particular 
  treatise. 
  This 
  Corral 
  Peak 
  

   and 
  White 
  Face 
  Mountain 
  Cluster 
  presents 
  itself 
  apparently 
  as 
  a 
  column 
  

   of 
  independent 
  mountain 
  upheaval. 
  The 
  deep 
  saddle 
  to 
  the 
  north, 
  the 
  

   two 
  canon-like 
  defiles 
  of 
  Willow 
  Creek 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  and 
  Troublesome 
  on 
  

   the 
  west 
  side, 
  besides 
  the 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Grand 
  Eiver 
  on 
  the 
  south, 
  would 
  

   be 
  apt 
  to 
  suggest 
  such 
  a 
  theory. 
  

  

  WILLOW 
  CREEK 
  MOUNTAINS— 
  EXTENSION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MEDICINE 
  BOW 
  RANGE. 
  

  

  From 
  near 
  Grand 
  Valley 
  Peak, 
  at 
  the 
  extreme 
  southern 
  end 
  of 
  Medi- 
  

   cine 
  Bow 
  Eange, 
  and 
  from 
  where 
  the 
  Continental 
  or 
  Park 
  Divide 
  takes 
  

   a 
  western 
  course, 
  a 
  heavy 
  mountain 
  ridge 
  detaches 
  itself 
  from 
  the 
  main 
  

   divide. 
  It 
  presses, 
  in 
  peculiar 
  zigzag 
  winding, 
  within 
  a 
  very 
  few 
  miles 
  

   from 
  the 
  Grand 
  Eiver 
  near 
  its 
  junction 
  with 
  Willow 
  Creek, 
  and 
  forms, 
  

   by 
  its 
  characteristics, 
  a 
  group 
  by 
  itself. 
  With 
  a 
  crest 
  of 
  20 
  miles 
  in 
  

   length, 
  its 
  curves 
  are 
  not 
  unlike 
  a 
  sign 
  of 
  interrogation 
  (?), 
  producing 
  

   thereby 
  on 
  its 
  upper 
  sling 
  a 
  big 
  amphitheater, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  east 
  branch 
  

   of 
  Willow 
  Creek 
  rises. 
  

  

  The 
  aspect 
  of 
  that 
  coil 
  of 
  mountains 
  is 
  massive, 
  which 
  will 
  be 
  easily 
  

   understood 
  when 
  explained 
  that 
  this 
  20 
  miles 
  of 
  mountain 
  crest, 
  together 
  

   with 
  40 
  miles 
  of 
  side 
  spurs, 
  are 
  compressed 
  into 
  a 
  small 
  area 
  of 
  100 
  

   square 
  miles. 
  There 
  are 
  four 
  high 
  points 
  on 
  the 
  crest, 
  which 
  attain 
  an 
  

   altitude 
  of 
  12,000 
  feet, 
  and 
  ten 
  or 
  twelve 
  other 
  well-defined 
  nipples 
  of 
  

   11,600 
  feet 
  average 
  height. 
  This 
  ridge 
  is, 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part, 
  well 
  covered 
  

  

  