Area 72 covers the country south and east of Dubois along the Wind River, taking in the eastern flank of the Wind River Range, the Fitzpatrick Wilderness, and the foothills running toward the Owl Creek country. Elevations span from about 6,800 feet on the Wind River valley floor to over 13,000 feet on the Continental Divide—Gannett Peak (13,809 feet), Wyoming's highest, sits adjacent. The Fitzpatrick Wilderness covers about 198,000 acres of high alpine country: cirques, glaciers (the Dinwoody and Gannett Glaciers are the largest in the U.S. Rockies outside Alaska), granite peaks, and the upper Dinwoody Creek and Bull Lake Creek drainages. Below the wilderness, the country grades through spruce-fir and lodgepole timber into aspen and sage on the lower flanks. The Whiskey Mountain bighorn herd uses the southeast portion. Shoshone NF and the Fitzpatrick Wilderness dominate, with the Wind River Reservation forming a hard southern boundary (tribal permits required, rarely issued to non-tribal) and BLM and private filling the foothills. US-26/287 is the paved access through the valley; trailheads at Trail Lake, Glacier Trail, and Dinwoody Creek climb into the wilderness. Dubois is the supply town. Cell service is gone past town. Pack-in for the high country—the access is genuinely demanding and most successful elk hunters use horses or accept multi-day backpack hauls. Bighorn sheep tags on Whiskey Mountain are among the most coveted in the West.