The Lost River Range is in a rain shadow. Snowpack is usually light in most winters as some of these photos show, yet there are often snow patches on Mt. Borah even in the summer, as the bottom photo taken in early August shows.
Up Pete Creek toward Mt. Breitenbach (hidden by clouds and a point in front of it). Photo taken in April. Copyright © Ralph Maughan |
Many of the photos of the bold Lost River front were carefully placed to avoid the maze of telephone poles and powerlines thoughtless institutions have run across the broad alluvial fans that spill down from the steep west-facing canyons. If the photo was about 40 pixels lower, a powerline would be in view.
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 In Jones Creek, a steep west slope canyon. Mt. Donaldson in the distance. Early March 2003. Copyright © Ralph Maughan |
Mt. Idaho (12,065 feet) from near Merriam
Lake. Copyright © Gwen Gerber
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Peak 11,280. Early morning in Dry Creek
Copyright © Ralph Maughan |
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Canyon wall on the west side of Mt. Borah. Photo taken
in early August. Note the lingering patches of snow.
Copyright © Ralph Maughan |
. Photo to the south from the ridge above Merriam Lake
Copyright © Ralph Maughan
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