I love Idaho. I've been there twice, and will be going back in mid to late July to climb with some friends at the City of Rocks and in the Sawtooth Mountains and beyond. I'm looking for some fresh ideas - long routes in the 5.6-5.8 range (I'll likely only have partners for 1-2 "big" climbs), fun scrambles in the 3rd class to low 5th class range, and at least one 50-80 mile backpack that could be combined with peaks. I'll be driving to Glacier NP after the Sawtooths, so anything along that stretch would be perfect.
I've already done the Open Book on the Finger of Fate, the Mountaineers Route on Elephant's Perch, the Stur Chimney on Heyburn, several scrambles on El Capitan, a traverse of Parks Peak, four of the Seven Devils, and Borah.
I own Lopez's Climbing Guide, which is a fantastic book. I like his philosophy of providing short objective route descriptions. However, Idaho is more than 2000 miles from my home (PA), so I'd like to make the best use of my time and focus on routes that are absolute classics. Above all else I enjoy long class 4 routes on solid rock. I know, there's not a whole lot in Idaho that's "solid". The Sawtooth page here on SummitPost is very informative and well done, but I'd like to hear what other ideas you have. Thanks!
