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Stratus is located between Mt. Nimbus and Baker Mountain as a ridge of Stratus going east to Green Knoll. It sits at an altitude of 12,520'. The watershed from the east side is captured by the Grand Ditch, dug along its flank to capture the water and divert it from the Colorado River to the eastern plains. It is one of several mountains in the Never Summer Range named after cloud forms.
Stratus Mountain was named by Roger Toll in 1921 after leading climbers up this peak. He wanted to conform to the naming of the other peaks surrounding: Nimbus, Cirrus, and Cumulus, named earlier by James Rogers of the Colorado Geographic Board. Stratus clouds are often at low altitude and take a very horizontal shape.#
