The hiking trail guides in Idaho adore the mountains to the north and south but ignore most of the Snake River Plain. That big, empty swath of sagebrush and lava is the high desert, and hiking authors largely direct their readers elsewhere.
That doesn’t stop folks from poking around in the desert with maps. You’ll find lovely native wildflowers. And sculpted basalt. And absolutely gorgeous silence.
But there’s been a lot of disappointment in the exploration, too: Roads that appear on maps but seem nonexistent on the ground. Long, bumpy rides to nowhere. Inability to find access to public land that doesn’t trespass on private.
Doesn’t anybody write guidebooks for the Idaho desert?
Turns out, Sheldon Bluestein did in 1988. It’s called Exploring Idaho’s High Desert. Now he has rewritten his book, this time as a website, Sagehiker.
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