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This peak is not in the book. Published November 2024

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Peak 6867 separates Heglar Canyon from Houtz Canyon in the Sublett Range. It also sits at the head of Dairy Canyon. Peak 6867 is most easily climbed from a 2-track road to its east from a high saddle. The actual HP is a subject of serious debate based on my exploration and altimeter measurements. USGS North Heglar Canyon

Access

From ID-37 in Rockland, reset your odometer and drive west on [signed] Center Street (which soon becomes Houtz Canyon Road). At 2.9 miles, reach a signed junction with Miller Road (right). Continue straight on Houtz Canyon Road. At 5.6 miles, reach a signed junction with Dairy Canyon Road (right). Continue straight on Houtz Canyon Road. At 5.7 miles, reach the BLM boundary. Houtz Canyon Road now becomes [signed] BLM-660. At 8.8 miles, reach an unsigned road junction. Park in the grass just past this junction (5,545 feet and 42⁰30’15”N, 113⁰00’15”W).

East Ridge, Class 2

The Climb

From the road junction, follow a narrow 2-track road west up an unnamed drainage for about 0.4 miles to a sharp left/southwest bend in the road and an unsigned road junction. Continue southwest on the main road for another 0.1 miles to another unsigned road junction. Go left/southwest here onto a weaker 2-track road that initially parallels the stronger/main 2-track road (which heads west then northwest up a dry gully). The weaker 2-track road heads southwest then south to reach a small saddle at the base of the east ridge of Peak 6867 at 5,980 feet.

From the saddle, follow the remnants of an old 2-track road heading west up a forested, brushy shoulder of sorts. The old track descends 35 vertical feet to a minor saddle and crosses the head of a gully to the left/south. The old track then heads left-ish/southwest to reach a more defined ridgeline. It ends in thick-ish scrub just before reaching the crest of the ridge. Bash southwest through scrub to reach the ridge crest. The ridge is mostly covered with leafy veg, not sagebrush or prickly scrub.

Bushwhack southwest up the steep-ish, rounded ridge, finding gaps and lanes as able. There are some grassy, semi-open areas but they don’t last for long. Higher up, the ridge bends right-ish/northwest and is an easier, better-defined shoulder. The ridge bends again higher up, this time heading left/southwest and requiring the crossing of a thick patch of veg. The final push to the summit is west-southwest and is a rounded ridge with shorter grass/scrub. The official/measured summit hump is covered with knee-high, thick field grass and has no summit cairn.

But there is a hump to the west-southwest that has a large cairn atop it and appears to be slightly higher, and it is about 5-10 feet higher. I visited another unofficial HP about ½ mile to the north of the unofficial, cairned west summit hump. The north summit (which has east and west humps) shares the same “highest contour” as the official/measured summit. The west hump is the higher of the two humps and measures 5-10 feet higher (according to my altimeter) than the unofficial, cairned summit hump. Perhaps LiDAR will resolve this HP issue soon. The HP of this double-humped massif (the southern, official humps and the northern, unofficial humps) may be ½ mile north of the current HP placement by LOJ. At the least, the HP is 100 yards west-southwest of the official/measured point on the higher, cairned hump.