This peak is not in the book. Published November 2019 North Cottonwood Ridge is one of many ridges in the South Hills. It is located just west of McMullen Basin. A road (FSR-545) gets you close to the summit. The summit area showed no signs of previous ascent so I built a small cairn on the summit high point. USGS … Continue reading
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This peak is not in the book. Published November 2019 Mountain View Peak is the high point on Buckskin Ridge. It can easily be reached via Buckskin Road/FSR-617 if you have a high-clearance, 4WD vehicle. There are a series of major watery mudholes on this road making it difficult to even hike it! USGS Pike Mountain North Ridge, Class 2 … Continue reading
This peak is not in the book. Published November 2019 Elk Butte is a small, unobtrusive hump on the long ridge that extends north from Pike Mountain. The peak has impenetrable brush/aspens/willows on its lower west face making a direct climb from Rock Creek Road a virtual impossibility. It also has several sections of thick forest on its north ridge, … Continue reading
This peak is not in the book. Published November 2019 Grand View Peak is a point on the long northern extension of Buckskin Ridge. Buckskin Ridge is, in turn, an extension of the long, dominant north-south ridge that splits the South Hills—Deadline Ridge. Grand View Peak has a tall cairn and a USGS benchmark on its summit. It is guarded … Continue reading
This peak is not in the book. Published November 2019 Sugarloaf is a windswept bump on a long plateau/butte at the north end of the South Hills. It has two notable landmarks: an antenna facility (quite visible) and a USGS benchmark (not so visible). The easiest route is via Indian Spring Road (from the north) with a short scramble up … Continue reading
This peak is not in the book. Margo Mandella and Livingston Douglas provided the information based below based on separate climbs. Updated December 2020 Cedar Butte is a prominent and popular peak in Bingham County, in an area that locals call the greater “Arco Desert.” The Bureau of Land Management conducts research within a 36,000-acre wilderness study area that includes … Continue reading