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Hudspeth Peak

Hudspeth Peak (8,437')Submitted by Rick Baugher
From the Paleozoic limestone summit of Hudspeth Peak this view is NE to Deep Creek Peak. Photo 3/30/03 by Rick Baugher From the Paleozoic limestone summit of Hudspeth Peak this view is NE to Deep Creek Peak. Photo 3/30/03 by Rick Baugher NW face Hudspeth Peak , photo by Rick Baugher, 3/30/03 NW face Hudspeth Peak , photo by Rick Baugher, 3/30/03 View S to Hudspeth Peak el 8437', photo by Rick Baugher, 3/30/03 View S to Hudspeth Peak el 8437', photo by Rick Baugher, 3/30/03

I was just wrapping up a season of skiing over one million vertical feet at Grand Targhee, and was getting royally tired of the yo-yo scene. This lonely ski descent in the middle of southern Idaho nowhere lifted my sagging spirits.

The suggested peak name is meant to honor Benoni Hudspeth (1816-1850), a Missourian who pioneered an immigrant wagon route near here in 1849. Hudspeth's Cutoff left the Oregon Trail near Soda Springs and met up with the California Trail in Raft River Valley. The cutoff was a difficult route as it hugged the Great Basin-Columbia Divide. Much of southern Idaho still has the feel of pioneer country.