marked escarpment that extends around the base of the range, 
sinking with a dip of 2° to 5° to the level of the drift plain 
on the south slope. 
From the promontory we passed up over heavy snow fields 
and up a sharp erest, and at an elevation of 10,200 feet reached 
a sharp conical point, a southeast outlier of Mount Holmes. 
Between this point and the main summit there is a depression of 
a few hundred feet . ... 
The day being exceedingly cold I had to refrain from prolong- 
ed examination as well as from the usual sketching. Topographi- 
cally the peak is simple, but scenically rather imposing, occupy- 
ing, as it does, the extreme point of the range and overlooking 
a grand sweep of low country bordering the Madison 
(Report on the Geology of the Yellowstone Rational Park, by W. H. 
Holmes, 1878, page 23) 
