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Idaho's fourth highest summit outside the LRR

November 13 2005 at 5:11 PM
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idarick  (Login idarick)


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Hi Judy,
Old knees or not, doing that peak as a day outing makes for a good showing. Kudos! Sounds like you folks know your way around the mountains. What else have you done?
...Hope to Stand Peak was first sighted in 1894-95 by civil engineer Edmund T. Perkins who did the topography on the USGS Hailey one degree quad. Look carefully on this interesting old map and you will see an enclosed 11900' contour. From 1918-1967 this peak didn't exist in the eyes of mapmakers, or, at best it was grossly misplaced. The typical error, and one carried forward even today by the DeLorme Idaho Atlas, is to show Little Wood drainage apexing at Standhope Peak.
...Another reason to remember this peak: Hope to Stand is the high point of a wild ridge that stays continuously above 11000' for nine miles. In Idaho there is only one such 11000' ridge that is longer. Can you guess where it is located?

 
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