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Lost River Peak, also known as Lost River Mountain, at 12,078 feet (3,681 m) above sea level is the sixth-highest peak in the U.S. state of Idaho and the fifth-highest in the Lost River Range. The peak is located in Salmon-Challis National Forest in Custer County. It is 1.8 mi (2.9 km) southeast of Mount Breitenbach, its line parent. [2] [3] [4]
Nearby is an interpretive site explaining the effects of the magnitude 6.9 Borah Peak earthquake that hit the range on October 28, 1983. The Big Lost River Valley fell and the Lost River Range rose, leaving a fault scarp of up to 14 ft (4.3 m) along the base of the mountains. Borah Peak, Idaho, looking east (note 1983 earthquake fault scarp ...
White Cap Peak ranks as the 18th-highest peak in Idaho and is part of the Lost River Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. [3] The mountain is set on land managed by Salmon–Challis National Forest.
When Jeremy Powell stood atop Fenn Mountain in the Selway Crags, he was feeling pretty accomplished. Summiting the 8,021-foot mountain in remote North Idaho’s Nez Perce-Clearwater National ...
The 1983 Borah Peak earthquake occurred on October 28, at 8:06:09 a.m. MDT in the western United States, in the Lost River Range at Borah Peak in central Idaho. [5] [6] [7]The shock measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
The 40 most topographically prominent summits of Idaho; Rank Mountain peak Mountain range Elevation Prominence Isolation ... Lost River Range: 11,086 ft 3379 m: 3,444 ft
Mount McCaleb ranks as the 33rd-highest peak in Idaho and is part of the Lost River Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. [3] The mountain is set on land managed by Salmon–Challis National Forest and the peak overlooks the town of Mackay which is situated 6.5 miles south of the peak.
The avalanche occurred Friday when two experienced backcountry skiers were traveling on Donaldson Peak in Idaho's Lost River Range, the Sawtooth Avalanche Center said. Backcountry skier dies after ...