[7] 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.

Climbers can expect afternoon rain, hail, and lightning from the seasonal monsoon in late July and August.

The mountain is immediately north of the mining boom town of Lulu City that sprang up in 1880 and was abandoned by 1886.

The town was built primarily by the Middle Park and Grand River Land Improvement Company which was backed by Benjamin Franklin Burnett of Fort Collins.

[8][9] At the recommendation of the US Forest Service, the mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1929 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.