The mountain's descriptive name refers to the matted groundcover of the roof-shaped mountain.[2] The landforms's toponym was officially adopted in 1932 by the United States Board on Geographic Names,[7] although it appeared in publications as early as 1911 if not earlier.[8] The Arapaho called the mountain "Buffalo Climb."[9]
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Thatchtop is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.[10] Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter, and as thunderstorms in summer, with a dry period in late spring.
^Decisions of the United States Geographic Board No. 2, (June 30, 1932), US Government Printing Office, p. 8.
^Enos A. Mills (1911), The Spell of the Rockies, Houghton Mifflin, p. 341.
^Randi Minetor (2019), Historic Rocky Mountain National Park, Lyons Press, ISBN9781493038770, p. 21.
^Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN1027-5606.
