My first attempt at Borah ended at the base of chicken out ridge because I had no crampons. Attempt two ended at the snowbridge which looked horifying due to newly drifted snow. The above picture represents my high point of try number three. While stopped by the NE ridge, I did get a really good look at the north face...not that steep. 
Try number three also had the benefit of sick corn turns from the 12,000 ridge. I was duanted by the approach up "trailless" Rockcreek, but in retrospect it might be the easiest three miles in the Lost River Range thanks to the excellent description available on summitpost by reboyles.
For try number 4 I chose a different route, a West Face snow couloir, and opted for a planned bivy. Ariving at my bivy spot, I eyed my route and knew it would go!
Here it is, up the blue dots to the summit, ski back down the blue dots to the big rock traverse. Then traverse to the green dots and ski the snowbridge couloir! Awsome bivy spot, eh?
Arriving at the summit at 11:00 I expected to ski immediately, however, for the first trime ever, a forcasted mostly sunny day in the Big Lost River Valley turned mostly cloudy forcing me to shiver in fetal position on my pack behind this windblock for 2 hours waiting for the snow to soften. This always happens to me, heck!
Me with some of the trash I found on the summit
Looking back at the summit from near the top of the snowbridge showing the line I skied off the summit. Yes, the steep line on the left is pretty high on my list. I had perfect corn off the summit in a window of sunshine. The snowbridge coulie also had perfect corn and was spiced up by many prodruding rock fins, my favorite!
Looking South from the summit. The green arrow shows my high point and ski descent from last month on Leatherman.
Next year, a bigger snowpack will allow a more thorough exploration of these mountains.
