As the name suggests, this is where many climbers turn back due to the sheer danger. Make it your goal to touch each of Idaho's corners, and then add the best view in the state to your bucket list as well.
You won't regret it! Idaho In Your Inbox spinner. Thank you! You'll receive your first newsletter soon! Love Idaho? Get more stories delivered right to your email. Some will be excited, many will be anxious, others will decide to turn around and return another day. Climbers may ask you if you are on the right track and you will shrug your shoulders with a sincere hopefulness.
Mountaineering is a lifelong residency and climbers are an affable crowd, quick to mentor one another along the way. You might see a faint trail tucking to the left below Chicken Out Ridge. Avoid it. Pressing on? Chicken Out Ridge clambers up a rocky spine protruding with blocky handholds. But negotiating the geology quickly becomes natural. Experienced climbers will feel safer with an ice axe, crampons and belayed with a rope.
If the peak is covered in snow, beginners should wait until after the snow melts. The razor-edge snow spine is often stomped out by legions of climbers, creating a well-worn path to the other side. With the crux behind you, give yourself another break and an opportunity to shed clothes, rehydrate, and assess your line to the summit. An obscure trail trickles to the left through rocky bands and up to the summit on gravel slopes.
If that trail is covered by snow, the more direct route is to shimmy up the rocky shoulder. There is no right nor wrong; either variation is safe but both are a bit of a choose your own adventure. After climbing the rocky face, with a new perspective from the top, we chose to descend the trail. The summit crest is well marked with a stack of rocks and an old ammo box, filled with notes, medallions, and a log book.
If you look carefully, you can find names carved on the rock dating as far back as In summer, the summit can be a busy place. We had it all to ourselves for about 15 minutes before our new friends topped out. Take time to enjoy the summit. Put on a layer, snap some pictures, eat some food and drink some water. But the summit is only half the climb. You brought trekking poles, right?
Your knees will thank you as you rethread the route back down into camp. President Obama has announced that Alaska's Mount McKinley will now be called Denali , which is what natives call the peak. But European explorers named the peaks after British naval officers. The namesakes of Mount Hood and Mount Rainier never spent time in this part of the country. The namesake of Idaho's tallest mountain does have a connection to the state. Mount Borah is named for William Borah, a long-time U.
There's also a Mount Washington in both Oregon and Washington. Copyright Northwest News Network. Search Query Show Search. On The Air. Ways To Give.
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