Boulder White Clouds Council - The Place: White Cloud Peaks & High Lakes

Hiking the Boulder-White Clouds

Boulder-White Clouds Council
Post Office Box 6313
Ketchum, Idaho 83340
www.wildwhiteclouds.org
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125 lakes, named
and unnamed, are
scattered throughout
the Boulder-White
Cloud Mountains

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White Cloud Peaks
and High Lakes

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The Place - White Cloud Peaks and High Lakes

THE
PLACE:

Place Map     PLACE 1: White Cloud Peaks & High Lakes     PLACE 2: Boulder Mountains
PLACE 3: Salmon River Breaks     PLACE 4: East Fork Salmon River
PLACE 5: Herd Creek Highlands - Jerry Peak     PLACE 6: Corral-Horse Basin

ere are 20 miles of lofty summits including the alabaster peaks for which the range is named. Many day hikes are in Fourth of July Creek drainage, reached by a bumpy washboard road. Washington Basin accessed via Pole Creek road, is a car (high clearance needed!) camping favorite, with day hikes to Champion Lakes, Chamberlain Basin or Washington Peak.

Classic backpacking trips are treks in Big Boulder Lakes, Boulder Chain Lakes, Chamberlain Basin/Castle Peak and Fourth of July-Born Lakes. Intrepid adventures can find isolation by scrambling over and down ridges to Four Lakes Basin, Quiet and Noisy Lakes or Tin Cup Basin. Warm Springs canyon stretches 20 miles from Born Lakes to the Salmon River, offering a rare, roadless sanctuary for gray wolves, vast elk herds and humans.

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Main trailheads are located off Highway 75 in the Sawtooth Valley. The East Fork Salmon River road 120 provides access to popular departure points in Big Boulder and Little Boulder.

Maps: Sawtooth National Forest, Sawtooth National Recreation Area and USGS maps for the area.

White Cloud Peaks & High Lakes
Linked destinations are featured further on separate pages and/or in Outings Archives.
More featured hikes are coming soon!

Access: Fourth of July Creek Road

Fourth of July Lake
Washington Lake
Ants Basin Divide, Ants Basin
Born Lakes
Blackman Peak
Phyllis Lake
Heart Lake/Six Lakes Basin (Also, 2001 Outings Archives)
Champion Lakes

Access: Valley Road

Horton Peak (Also, 2001 Outings Archives)

Access: Pole Creek Road

Historic Pole Creek Guard Station
Twin Creeks-South Fork Champion Creek
Grand Prize Gulch-West Fork of the East Fork
Champion Lakes
Galena Gulch
Washington Basin/Washington Peak (Also, 1998 Outings Archive)
Chamberlain Basin & Lakes, Castle Divide
Germania Creek Waterfall

Access: Fisher Creek Road

Pass Creek-Fourth of July Creek
Fisher-Williams Creek Trail
The Meadows & Warm Springs Canyon

Access: East Fork Salmon River - Big Boulder Trailhead

Walker Lake, Big Boulder Lakes
Island Lake
Tin Cup Lake Basin
Crater Lake (Also, 1999 Outings Archives)
Little Redfish Lake, Frog Lakes Basin

Access: East Fork Salmon River - Little Boulder Trailhead

Boulder Chain Lakes
Baker Lake & Slickenslide Creek
Quiet & Noisy Lakes, Shallow & Scree Lakes
Castle Divide & Castle Peak
Wickiup Ridge

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