Wellsville Mountains in late winter

The Wellsville Mountains are situated on the west side of Utah's beautiful Cache Valley. The Wellsvilles comprise the north end of the Wasatch Mountains, and are among the steepest of U.S. mountain ranges, although they rise to an altitude of only about 8500 feet.

The community seen to the left in the picture is Wellsville, Utah.

Before Cache Valley was settled in the 1850s, it had been a center of the fur-trapping trade for half a century. The name "Cache" came from the practice of the French trappers of hiding or "cacheing" their furs during the fall and winter, and then bringing them out to sell at the spring and summer rendezvous held in the Valley.