Wind River Range

Fixed anchors, which climbers use to get down from rock faces, have been at the center of a year-long fight between climbers, conservationists and the federal government.

In recent years, grizzly bears have expanded into new parts of Wyoming, including the southern reaches of the Wind River Range. That territory increase comes as more people are recreating in the Winds than ever before.

Sandy Colhoun is the new president of the Lander-based National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), a wilderness-focused organization that leads expeditions in the mountains of Wyoming and around the globe. Colhoun is the school’s seventh president and started in his new role in early October.

This summer, Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone college students will traverse the Wind River Range, collecting first of its kind weather data.The project is called ‘New Voices in Climate’ and is part of Central Wyoming College (CWC) near the Wind River Reservation.

One of the hardest endurance adventure races in the lower 48 is right here in Wyoming, in the Wind River Mountains. Due to an extreme winter storm, this year was the hardest version of the race to date.

Lander and South Pass City are officially ‘gateway’ communities along the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) as of Wednesday, August 24, and the hope is the designation will bring more business and tourism to the towns.

The search and rescue agency in Sublette County has had a busy July so far; however, it was a slow start to the season due to the long, cold spring weather.Tip Top Search and Rescue is a volunteer team that rescues people who are hurt or missing in Sublette County, often deep in the mountains, that other emergency services do not have the capability to help.

An analysis of archaeological research focusing on the mass amounts of Native American artifacts in the northern end of the Wind River Range was presented to the public for the first time Tuesday night, May 17, in Pinedale.

Sixty-eight and a half acres of land along the Wind River front range is now protected as a conservation easement - which is a voluntary legal agreement…

The lakes in the alpine areas of the Wind River Range have historically been fishless - that is, until humans started stocking them for recreational use.…