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Posted by Ballpark Frank (66.58.238.35) on 00:40:34 08/05/12
In Reply to: Where is Storm Peak? posted by MO Pat E
Hi Pat,
Storm Peak is an earlier era name for the peak now known as Cook Peak. It is part of the Washburn Range. If you go quite a ways along the ridge that heads north from Observation Peak (actually from one knoll west of Observation), you wind up on top of Cook Peak. Off to your ENE is Folsom and Prospect Peaks. To the north is the headwaters of Blacktail Deer Creek, located in one of the nastiest burned forests in Yellowstone.
Depending on the specifics of your route, doing the entire trek from the Cascade Lake trailhead over Observation Peak, up the ridge to Cook Peak, and down to the Blacktail Deer Creek trailhead, can take as little as 22 or 23 miles, or (as we did one rather long 24 hour day)as much as 29 miles, much of it off-trail, and occasionally through forest burned in 1988.
The best description of this hike I can offer is "character building".
Ballpark
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