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Hike · Borah Peak trailhead

Borah Peak

Distance
7.0 mi
Vertical
5,259 ft
Summit
12,516 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Borah Peak is the high point of Idaho at 12,662 feet, the apex of the Lost River Range. The mountain went unnamed on USGS maps until 1934, when surveyors confirmed it stood taller than Hyndman Peak and assigned the name of William E. Borah, the long-serving Idaho senator who…

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About Borah Peak

Borah Peak, also known as Mount Borah or Beauty Peak, is a mountain in the western United States and the highest summit in Idaho. One of the most prominent peaks in the contiguous United States, it is located in central Idaho in the central section of the Lost River Range, within the Challis National Forest in eastern Custer County. On February 11, 2021, the USGS officially recognized Mt. Borah as Idaho's only active glacier.

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Borah Peak's east face rising 6,000 feet above the sagebrush of the Lost River Valley.
Leaflet · Public domain
The pyramidal summit in winter, snow-loaded across the southwest ridge.
Diogeninja · CC BY-SA 4.0
The pale line of broken ground at the base of the peak is the fault scarp left by the 1983 magnitude 6.9 earthquake.
G. Thomas · Public domain
The summit cone seen from Chicken-Out Ridge — the Class 4 limestone arête that turns many climbers around.
Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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