Climbing Borah Peak |
 This illustrated photograph showing the route up Borah Peak has been copied from a Climbing Guide published by the United States Forest Service. From the campground to the start of Chicken Out Ridge, the route up the mountain goes basically east; from Chicken Out Ridge to the summit, climbers head roughly north. While the campground is at 7,450 feet / 2,271 metres above sea-level, the summit is 12,662 feet / 3,859 metres above sea-level: in a mere three-and-a-quarter miles / five kilometres, the climb ascends 5,250 feet / 1,722 metres. The average gradient of the climb is thus almost one in three. |