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Mount Timpanogos

Distance
14.0 mi
Vertical
5,299 ft
Summit
11,033 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Mount Timpanogos — locally just Timp — is the second-highest summit in Utah's Wasatch Range at 11,752 feet, towering nearly 7,000 vertical feet above the Provo–Orem stretch of Utah Valley. The mountain is built entirely of Pennsylvanian-period limestone and dolomite roughly 300…

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About Mount Timpanogos

Mount Timpanogos, often referred to as Timp, is the second-highest mountain in Utah's Wasatch Range. Timpanogos rises to an elevation of 11,752 ft (3,582 m) above sea level in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. With 5,270 ft (1,610 m) of topographic prominence, Timpanogos is the 47th-most prominent mountain in the contiguous United States.

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Alpenglow on Mount Timpanogos's snow-covered limestone ridges seen from Utah Valley.
Eric Ward (from Provo, UT) · CC BY-SA 2.0
The summit massif from the Timpanogos Trail near the saddle, with a lingering snowfield in the cirque.
Brian Smith · CC BY-SA 3.0
The east face from Primrose Cirque, with snow couloirs and the U-shaped glacial trough below the summit ridge.
ProvoCougar · CC0
The summit massif from a green basin below, the layered limestone cliffs banded in dark gray.
Brian Smith · CC BY-SA 3.0

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