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Third Reunion with Borah Peak

Posted on July 21, 2020July 13, 2025 by Backcountry Fever

An annual family reunion on my wife’s side leads me to the second in my COVID Summer Series of State Highpoints. On the 3rd weekend in July, for as long as she can remember, families from her mother’s lineage gather together for the Armstrong Reunion in the remote community of Mackay, Idaho (pronounced Mackie; pop….

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Summer Series kicks off on Humphrey’s

Posted on June 30, 2020August 14, 2025 by Backcountry Fever

Accomplishing state highpoints wasn’t a serious goal for me until COVID killed all kinds of other plans I had this year.  A few of these have already been on my bucket list for a while now, but not with any kind of serious effort to git’em done.  So with COVID making the door clear and…

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