I was on my way to Hailey to work out of the Hailey office for a few days. Several of my hiking partners bailed on me because of predicted bad weather. Instead of chasing a bigger peak, I settled for something smaller on the way to Hailey.

I had found a couple of unnamed, but "real" peaks near Little Camas Reservoir. I parked at Windy Gap on Highway 20 between Mountain Home and Fairfield. The weather was partly cloudy. There had just been a signifigant snow storm the day before, so the terrain was covered in 6 inches of new snow that had drifted into 2 or 3 foot drifts in spots.

My first peak was Dixie Peak (Peak 6161), which was southeast of Windy Gap. I headed up a steep slope to gain the ridge near Point 5704. From here, the ridge wound toward Dixie Peak. After several false summits, I finally arrived at the high point. The weather had been mostly sunny, but was starting to close in on the summit. Views included the Danksins and Trinities, but mostly were of Bennett Mountain to the south. After a few pictures, I made my way back to the vehicle.

Little Camas Peak (Peak 5740) is just across the highway from Dixie Peak. Instead of just leaving my snowshoes on, I decided to take them off and throw them in the vehicle, since this was a south ridge that I thought only had the six inches of new snow on it. After a few hundred feet of hiking through soft snow, the snowpack became deeper and I was postholing to my knees. What should have been a quick and easy 600' ascent on snowshoes turned into a trudge through rotten snow. Oh well, I needed the workout. The views of the South Fork Canyon and Little Camas Prairie were the highlights of this summit.

I parked at Windy Gap on Highway 20 between Mountain Home and Fairfield.

See the trip tracks above for the Dixie Peak portion. For Little Camas, just go up on the other side of Windy Gap.