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Garden Valley is an unincorporated census-designated place in Boise County, Idaho, United States. [1] As of the 2010 census, its population was 394. [2] The mountain setting and recreation opportunities attract visitors from the Boise area. Life there during the pioneer days was quite harsh and economic opportunity was based on logging, mining ...
The community ski hill, run by the nonprofit Idaho Ski Club, was sold in 1992 to Lookout Recreation, Inc., a company formed by two 27-year-old former college roommates, Don Walde of Wallace and Jim Fowler. [8] After seven years, it was sold in 1999 to Lookout Associates, headed by Phil Edholm, and plans for expansion soon followed. [9] [10]
The two-lane road turns 172 times [3] and gains 3,400 feet (1,040 m) in elevation as the terrain changes from dry sagebrush foothills to snow-laden mountain forest. Originally a gravel road constructed by CCC crews (funded by the WPA ) from 1938–40, Bogus Basin Road was first paved in 1962, widened in 1974, [ 19 ] and improved in 1998.
An initial storm blew through Boise in the early hours of Friday morning, dropping 1.5 inches on the city. A second band of snow passed through between noon and 2 p.m., dropping an additional 1.1 ...
To the west, strong winds and several inches of snow were forecast from northern Idaho to western Iowa on Monday as a low pressure system moves east from the Rockies and spreads over the Plains ...
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Snowhaven is a modest ski area in the western United States, located in north central Idaho, seven miles (11 km) southeast of Grangeville in Idaho County. [1] The elevation of its summit is 5,600 feet (1,707 m) above sea level, with a vertical drop of 400 feet (122 m) on east-facing slopes.
Snowbank Mountain is the highest point in the West Mountains, in Boise National Forest, Idaho with a summit elevation of 8,320 feet (2,540 m) above sea level. It is located 21.92 miles (35.28 km) from Nick Peak, its line parent, giving it a prominence of 3,080 feet (940 m). [1]