ELEPHANT’S PERCH
In 2008 I spent five days in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho with Chip Chace climbing on the Elephant’s Perch, a Diamond-scale formation with beautiful rock. Click on any image below for a full version and some backstory.
You start the approach to Elephant's Perch with a fast boat ride across Redfish Lake. Here we're on our way out.
Evening light on the Elephant's Perch, an amazing piece of rock with many ten-pitch climbs on it.
View of our camp at Saddleback Lakes, just below Elephant's Perch
Chip Chace following Fine Line (5.11)
Chip on the crux pitch of the Beckey Route (5.11+).
Me chilling and soaking in the elegant rock high up on the Becky Route.
Me leading one of the upper pitches on the Sunrise Corner (5.12-). Photo: Chip Chace
View from Sunrise Corner, looking down at Saddleback Lakes where we camped for five days
Chip on Myopia (5.11-)