Many climbers have contributed information included on this website. The book and the website would not have been possible without the contributions of many people. My thanks to the contributors identified on this and the following pages. This website can only be a success with the on going contribution of Idaho Mountaineers.
Please feel free to help us expand our knowledge of Idaho’s mountain and climbing routes by contributing to this endeavor. If you would like to contribute, please email me or use the submit a book update link.
| Margo Mandella | Margo Mandella is a contributor and the website's Associate Editor. Margo currently lives in Driggs, Idaho. Sh ... read more |
| Livingston Douglas | Liv Douglas is by far the most prolific contributor to this website and an Associate Editor. He is a Colorado- ... read more |
| Taylor Amato | Originally from Vermont, Taylor grew up hiking and snowboarding in the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Whit ... read more |
| Clint Barg | Clint Barg lives in Boise and grew up in Dubois. An avid outdoorsman, he spends a great deal of time in Idahoâ ... read more |
| Rick Baugher | Rick has climbed more Idaho peaks than anyone. He has contributed extensive climbing and historic information ... read more |
| Bob Boyles | Bob grew up in Boise and started hiking and camping in Idaho when he joined the local Boy Scout Troop 77 at ag ... read more |
| Ray Brooks | Ray became a climbing force in the Sawtooths in the 1970s. He has contributed outstanding articles on his 1970 ... read more |
| Andrew Chiles | Andrew has contributed his photography to the site. He is one of the new generation of climbers and you will n ... read more |
| Wes Collins | Wes Collins has probably climbed more technical routes in the Lost River Range than any other climber. His rou ... read more |
| Daniel Coulter | Originally from Michigan, Daniel currently lives in Moscow, ID. After climbing Mount Elbert in 2014, he set hi ... read more |
| Tom Cox | Tom Cox is another next generation climber. He gets out often and his blog, The Granola Chronicles, is well wo ... read more |
| Clint Cummins | Clint grew up in Enumclaw, Washington and learned to climb in the Cascades with his mom and dad. In spite of b ... read more |
| Michael Darcy (1957-2012) | Michael Darcy of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho was an avid mountain climber who explored many remote Idaho mountains. ... read more |
| Matthew Durrant | Matthew Durrant is from Preston, Idaho and grew up hiking and camping with his dad. His interest in climbing m ... read more |
| Russ Durrant | Russ Durrant is a 5th-generation Idaho native who has had the great fortune of living with some of the most sc ... read more |
| Charlie Eiriksson | Charlie grew up in Bozeman, hiked around a lot, took a climbing course in college, might have become a full-ti ... read more |
| Jared Empey | Jared is an Idaho native originally from Idaho Falls, but now lives in Kuna. He discovered his love for hiking ... read more |
| Alex Feldman | Alex's first Idaho summit was Mount Borah in a thunderstorm in 1987. He was so enamored with the experience th ... read more |
| Jason Floyd | Jason Floyd is based in Emmett, Idaho. Jason spends much of the cooler weather months wandering over read more |
| Neil Gleichman | Having retired from 26 years of teaching, Neil Gleichman has picked up where he left off. Before his teaching ... read more |
| Anna Gorin | Anna Gorin is a professional portrait and landscape photographer based in Boise. She has always loved hiking i ... read more |
| Steve Grantham | Steve Grantham has been climbing Idaho peaks since 1983, enthusiastically but at a somewhat leisurely pace. Â ... read more |
| Kevin Hansen 1979 – 2020 R.I.P. | Sadly, Kevin Hansen died as the result of a climbing accident on Labor Day Weekend 2020. He was descending Gra ... read more |
| Mike Hays | Mike grew up in Northern Idaho and has climbed well over 100 summits, mostly between the Canadian border and t ... read more |
| Kaleb Houck | Kaleb Houck is an Idaho Falls native whose mountain climbing activities have taken him across the Sierra, to A ... read more |
| Ken Jones | Ken Jones lives in Washington State but always seems to visit Idaho each year. You can find his name in summit ... read more |
| Mark Jones | Mark Jones was raised in Cincinnati but fell in love with the mountains on his first trip out West in 1995. He ... read more |
| Scot Kelchner | Scot spent his college years as a climbing instructor, taking groups to many of the main sites in North Americ ... read more |
| Rob Kleffner | Rob is a Boise native, amateur peak scrambler and data junkie. As a child, he would stare forlornly out the ca ... read more |
| Dan Krueger | Dan is a Treasure Valley native who has lived in various places around the Pacific Northwest and now calls Boi ... read more |
| Paul Leclerc | Paul grew up in New Hampshire but never explored any of the iconic mountains there. He moved to Idaho in 1998 ... read more |
| Joe Leonard | I began climbing and backcountry skiing in Idaho when 3-pin bindings, leather knickers, gaiters and wool socks ... read more |
| Steve Lysne | Steve provided a new route on the read more |
| Steve Mandella | Steve Mandella lives in Driggs, Idaho and is formerly from both Pocatello and Idaho Falls. He specializes in r ... read more |
| Ralph Maughan | Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor of political science at Idaho State University. ... read more |
| Pat McGrane | Pat McGrane grew up in Colorado where he climbed and bouldered extensively. During the 1970s and 1980s, he did ... read more |
| Grant Myers | Grant ... read more |
| Brian Orth | Brian and his wife Toni contributed route information for Peak 11332 in the Lost River Range. Their climb in t ... read more |
| Dave Pahlas | Dave is an avid mountain climber who can’t get enough of Idaho’s mountain tops. He is an Idaho native who ... read more |
| Dan Paulson | Dan grew up near Seattle in the shadow of Mount Rainier. He spent many hours hiking the glaciers as a teenager ... read more |
| Derek Percoski | In 2014, Derek settled in his wife’s hometown of Sun Valley and immediately began exploring the mountains of ... read more |
| John Platt 1955-2022 | John passed away while crosscountry skiing near his McCall home February 2022. The last time I climbed with ... read more |
| Erik Pohlmann | Erik craves backpacking, hiking, skiing and snowshoeing or, for that matter, any self-propelled outdoor advent ... read more |
| Larry Prescott (1960-2016) | My friend and fellow climber, Larry Prescott, died on the shoulder of Peak 10693 in the Lemhi Mountain Range o ... read more |
| Brandon Prince | Brandon Prince did not start climbing until he was already in his early 30s. He hasn't stopped climbing, or ag ... read more |
| George Reinier | George and his friend Johnny Roache were the first climbers to climb all of Idaho's 11,000+ foot peaks. George ... read more |
| Dan Robbins | Dan Robbins was born and raised in Idaho. Dan is one of Idaho’s most prolific climbers and purveyors of Idah ... read more |
| Deb Rose | Deb Rose grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and has lived in Idaho since graduating from the University of Oreg ... read more |
| Terri Rowe | Terri Rowe moved to Idaho in 1999. Her highpointing journey began in 2010 when she read about “highpointingâ ... read more |
| Dan Saxton | Dan Saxton is a dedicated peakbagger, always chasing the summits where they’re at. He grew up in New York an ... read more |
| Brett Sergenian | Brett is originally from Wisconsin. He moved to Idaho in 2014. He started hiking in Idaho's mountains in 2015 ... read more |
| Basil Service | Basil and I first met in 1986 and have climbed together often since. He has extensive knowledge of the mountai ... read more |
| James Squires | James started his Idaho climbing odyssey when he was stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base. During this ti ... read more |
| Judi Steciak and Carl Hamke | Judi Steciak and Carl Hamke met in 1975 during a Clarkson Outing Club trip for technical climbing on Noonmark ... read more |
| Eric Stewart | Eric Stewart grew up in McCall and has climbed many of the most notable peaks in that area. He lived in Phoeni ... read more |
| Michael Stoger | Michael Stoger has pioneered and reported on many technical routes on read more |
| Trisha Thomason | Trisha Thomason grew up in Illinois and then moved to Texas. After falling in love with backpacking in the mou ... read more | |
| Michael Tilden | Michael is a proud father of two girls and husband to an awesome wife. He loves spending time with his family ... read more |
| Daniel Todd | Daniel Todd lives in Southeast Idaho with his wife and child. He loves all forms of climbing and trail running ... read more |
| Tim Worth | Tim has provided the article on read more |
| Victor Zhou | Victor is an East Coast city slicker who nevertheless cannot rid himself of the itch for mountains in the Grea ... read more |