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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Jul–Aug · highs 17–17 °C (63–63 °F)
- J-15°-24°43
- F-12°-23°32
- M-9°-19°48
- A-5°-15°61
- M2°-9°99
- J10°-3°106
- J17°4°66
- A17°3°57
- S10°-3°48
- O1°-10°53
- N-9°-20°45
- D-15°-25°50
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Hard (8/10) (alpine_hiking (T4) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL))
- Mapped length
- 6.2 km · 3.9 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain
- Mount Borah (mountain, 3,855 m; GeoNames)
- Mountain range
- Central Lost River Range (Lost River Range › Rocky Mountains; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 54 km SE of Challis (Custer County, Idaho) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Salmon-Challis National Forest
- Best months
- Jul–Aug
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- Idaho
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Local route
- SAC scale (OSM)
- alpine hiking
- Route centre
- 44.1333, -113.8078
- Route start
- 44.1374, -113.7811
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 12704855
How it’s scored
Hard (8/10). Official rating: alpine_hiking (T4) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
Nearest trails
distance from the trail startMerriam Lake
2.0 mi · 3.2 km · Salmon-Challis National Forest
Leatherman Pass
3.2 mi · 5.1 km · Salmon-Challis National Forest
East Fork Upper Pahsimeroi
7 mi · 12 km · Salmon-Challis National Forest
Dry Creek
8 mi · 13 km · Salmon-Challis National Forest
Swauger Lake
10 mi · 17 km · Salmon-Challis National Forest
Carlson Lake
11 mi · 17 km · Idaho
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