Escaping The Nutshell

The video includes a panoramic view from the summit, and a stop at a pond with a mallard duck.

2021-05-28 Summit register and USGS marker on Peekaboo Peak

This is a peak with no official name having a USGS map height of 10,583 ft just north of Camp Dick Campground in the Roosevelt National Forest. We call it Peekaboo Peak because we just like the name and there are no other peaks with that name, besides a hill with the name of Peekaboo Mountain somewhere in the Appalachians, as Google tells us.

We parked off the side of the road between Peaceful Valley Campground and Camp Dick Campground, near the intersection with Bunce School Road. Walking north on Bunce School Road, we turned left onto Forest Rd 202 and continued on it until the summit of interest was about directly north, where we left the trail and beelined up the south facing slope to the top.

2021-05-28 Mount Audubon from Peekaboo Peak

Note that the top of the mountain contains a large relatively flat area which at this time of year still contains lots of snow, in contrast to the south facing slope by which we ascended which contained almost no snow.

The actual summit can be hard to find because the flat area on the mountain's top is a forest of limber pine, and there are a couple false summits, one to the north and one to the south of the official summit, which has a USGS marker and a summit register composed of a jar and a few pieces of paper stapled together. This is not a popular peak to climb, as the last signature was nine months ago on August 26, 2020.

2021-05-28 Ironclads from Peekaboo Peak

GPS tracks