Mount Borah May 1st - 2nd 2008



This was a great and a minor epic of a trip. The goal was to spend 3 days skiing in the Lost River range in Idaho. We were hoping to climb Borah, the tallest peak in Idaho. On the 1st we made it to within 100 yards or so from the summit. After breaking trail in knee deep to chest deep powder we turned around at 6:20 p.m. Considering we had 100 yards of waist deep snow to go through, we knew we had at least an hour to just get to the top. We did not want to negotiate the knife edge ridge or the rocky descent in the dark so we turned around. We skied a rocky slope that took us all the way around the mountain, and back to the cars. We got to the cars at about 10:10 p.m., after about 13 hours of going hard. We had another 3 hour ascent to get back to our tent, so we left our stuff there and came back the next morning and retrieved our gear. Since the skiing was marginal we skied out and called it a trip. Some of the highlights were good mountain friends a great knife edge snowy ridge crossing, some okay skiing, and excellent steep mountains.