Borah is Idaho's Highest Peak at 12,662'. The climb starts at a trailhead campsite at 7,200'
It has been smokey and hot for so long. However the skies and air cleared and with just enough rain Friday night to give us a bright nearly full moon to try and sleep through.
There were five in the party. Rhonda and I, plus our friend and trainer, Mark L. with two of his friends, Mark and Jeff. We left the trailhead around 7:30 AM.
After an hour on the trail we break for rest at tree line.
the trail/route now follows a ridge line over looking the Lost River Range.
Approaching Chicken Out Ridge
The beginning of chicken out ridge.
Rhonda is a real trooper. She says she has never done this sort of thing before
there is just enough new snow to make it a little trickier it looks
Borah is a Class III climb.
coming off Chicken Out Ridge makes you wonder why it isn't a IV
The final push starts after Chicken Out with about another 1000' to go
Mark L making the final few steps to the summit
Here we are on the summit by 11:30.
The old banner is still there and the year has been updated
This was me, alone, two years ago. What a difference two years makes. 
The Two Marks
RonJon. What a difference two years makes!
Time to descend. It was a beautiful summit experience Very little wind
The snow is beginning to melt
Return to Chicken out
Mark checking on our progress to get back on the Ridge.
We helped a young couple through the ridge. The moves are enhanced by exposure. But after we got back on the lower ridge, the couple thought it was fun but scary. Early, they skirted a lower route through the loose scree and snow.
Coming down was a constant descent. Hard on the knees
Somewhere around 10,500 with the summit behind me
A look back down to camp.
A series of small switch backs through the scree.
A band of wild sheep are in the trees below the ridge.
It's fall. The Aspen marks a close end of the trail and we are back in camp by 3:15.
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