Photo Album List

Date: 2018-04-22

Pilot Peak is a prominent peak near Idaho City that has a look out on its top. Its elevation is 8128 feet and has a prominence of 2087 feet which gives it a good view of the surrounding area. This peak is popular for snow machines in the winter. Our climb was in the spring when the mountain was still covered with snow. We followed the snow machine tracks on snow shoes up from Mores Creek Summit.

Date: 2017-10-08

Mount Heinen is a prominent near Boise with an elevation of 6,336 feet. This mountain is part of the Boise Grand Slam. The climb starts from Arrow Rock Reservoir and climbs steeply up to the main ridge. Then follows this ridge to the summit.

Date: 2017-09-03

Goat Mountain is major peak along the main Pioneer Mountain crest with an elevation of 11,913 feet. This impressive mountain has two summits, with the northern higher summit is sometimes called Kane Peak. This summit has an impressive North face which drops steeply into Kane lake, an impressive cirque in the Pioneers. This climb was done on a smokey weekend in which I backpacked up the North Fork of Hyndman Creek and camped between its two upper forks. From there I worked my way up to the southern face of Goat Mountain then followed the knife ridge to the northern summit Kane Peak.

Date: 2017-09-02

Salzburg Spitzl is a mountain on the main Pioneer Mountain crest with an elevation of 11,620 feet. This climb was done on a smokey weekend in which I backpacked up the North Fork of Hyndman Creek and camped between its two upper forks. From there I worked my way up to the southern ridge of the peak, and followed it to the summit.

Date: 2017-08-15

Kent peak is the second highest peak in the Boulder Mountains at an elevation of 11,664 feet. This was a day climb up the North Fork of the Big Wood River outside of Ketchum Idaho. This climb followed a standard route where I followed a pack trail up to about 9200 feet. From there I headed up to the southern ridge of the peak and followed it to the summit.

Date: 2017-08-07

USGS Peak is the 10th highest mountain in Idaho with an elevation of 11,982 feet. At one point in time this mountain was thought to have an elevation fo 12,000 feet, but after it was surveyed again in 1965 (with flares), its more accurate height was found. This peak is fairly remote in the Lost River Range and not easily visable from the valley below. The climb is quite long and requires hiking 4000+ feet up through talus. The hike takes you into the heart of the Lost River Range and gives you a great view of the mountains.

Date: 2017-08-04

Standhope Peak is the fourth tallest peak in the Pioneer Mountains with an elevation of 11,878 feet. The approach to this mountain is mostly on trail with a nice trail system that starts at the Broad Canyon Campground. From there is a loop that goes between all the lakes and gets a trail that gets to a nearly 11,000 foot saddle. From the saddle you follow the ridge up to the summit.

Date: 2017-08-02

Big Creek Peak is the most proment peak in the central Lemhi Mountains. At 11,350 feet this peak sits up above Big Creek and gives a great view (if it wasn't so smokey). This hike started at Big Creek Campground and took me for a loop that took me up to the ridge line that included Big Creek Peak and then along the ridge line to summit four peaks, one of which was Flat Iron Mountain with an elevation of 11,019 feet.

Date: 2017-08-01

Grouse Creek Peak is an 11,085 foot peak located in the Pahsimerio subrange of the Lost River Mountains.

Date: 2017-07-31

Doublesprings Peak is a 11,611 foot peak north of Mount Borah. Due to a low saddle Doublesprings Peak is in a small group of peaks that give a great view of Mount Borah's north face. This hike was a long loop that took me to the top of three 11,000+ foot mountains including Doublesprings Peak, Horseshoe Mountain and Mahogany Trident.