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Three Fingers Rock
Three Fingers Rock sits just a few miles over the state border in Oregon, one of the most prominent features of the northern Owyhee Range, whose geology forms the western boundary of the Treasure Valley. Named for it’s three distinct skyward-jutting “knuckles”, the rock is a relatively easy hike and scramble that rewards explorers with
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Smith Creek Lake and North Star Lake via Upper Lava Mountain Trail
High in the Boise Range, two pristine alpine lakes sit largely undisturbed, seldom visited by hikers despite their proximity to the Boise metro area. They are the two major landmarks along Lava Mountain Trail, which travels east-west from the town of Prairie to the western slope of Trinity Peak. From the upper trailhead, both lakes
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Big Bend of Sheep Creek Canyon
If you drive an AWD/4WD vehicle with ground clearance and enjoy desolation and the borderline feeling of vertigo when standing on the edge of a gorge and looking down, you’ll love the Big Bend of Sheep Creek. This waterway flows north through a deep canyon from Nevada down the Owyhee Plateau before turning east at
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North Fork of the Boise River
2025 Update: A rockslide has dammed the river about 1.75 miles from the trailhead. The rest of this trail is inaccessible without swimming through the pool created by the dam. The Forest Service has been notified, but it’s unclear if they will attempt to blast out the dam with explosives, or leave the new trail
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Hello World!
Is 2022 too late to start blogging? At the peak of the COVID-19 lockdown in spring of 2020, I found myself with a fresh graduate degree from Boise State University, no job, and very few prospects; so I set a new goal for myself: hike every trail I could that was within day trip driving
Exploring Boise's Wilderness
Blogging day hikes and trips within three hours of Boise
Exploring Boise's Wilderness 