Sanders County High Point Trip Report
Snowshoe Pk
Date: August 16, 2000
Author: Bob Packard
From Route 2 in MT (S of Libby) took FR 278, then FR 867, then FR 4786 to trailhead for Trail #132. A
sign near trailhead indicates an unimproved route up Snowshoe from Leigh Lake which #132 goes to. It
certainly is unimproved. No sign of it anywhere. OK, it's a route, but no cairns, no nothing. It's really
just route finding. I did Bockman Peak (8174) first then Snowshoe. Real challenging, hard 3rd class and
you have to use the glacier, albeit at a point so high and flat that I did it without crampons or ice ax.
Summit is a double mound with cairns on both. SE one is higher and has a register. Last signers were on
August 13, 2000.
Statistics: 10.25 miles, 7 hours, 5600 feet elevation gain: look at that ratio of hours to miles!
Did Snowshoe just a day before the MT forests were to be closed to the public. Snowshoe alone can be
done in under 5,000 ft elevation gain.