Routes and pictures from Missoula area climbs from John Bardsley during 2014-2016.

1. Missoula Area Peaks
John Bardsley
http://mathgeekadventures.blogspot.com/

2. Peakbagger: A mountain climber whose principal goal is the
attainment of a summit, or a specific list of summits.

4. Peakbagger.com

5. Rocky Mountaineers: Missoula Horizon

6. Woody Mountain

8. Blue Mountain

9. Rocky Mountaineers: Rattlesnake

10. McCleod Peak

11. B. Story photo:

12. B. Story photo:

13. Rattlesnake Traverse
Start up Finley Creek, which you get
to by turning east off of Highway 93
onto McClure Road, a few miles
south of Arlee, and then right
(south) onto Finley Lakes Road, at
the end of which the trail begins.
You follow good trail up to lower
Finley Lake, and then continue on to
upper Finley Lake on intermittent
trail. From the upper Lake, you then
head off trail to the Wilderness
boundary above Sanders Lake, from
which the photo above was taken.
From the boundary, you descend to
Sanders Lake, and then walk good
trail, with a detour to Mosquito
Peak and along the ridge to Stuart
Peak, and finally, out to the
Rattlesnake Trailhead in Missoula.

20. Peak lists: MT 2000 feet of prominence (P2K)

21. P2K Near Missoula

22. Pistol Creek Lookout (almost a P2K)

27. P2K’s from Peakbagging Montana

28. Butte Cabin Ridge (see Peakbagging MT for route):

31. Quartz Benchmark
See Peakbagging Montana for the route.

34. Baldy Mountain (see Peakbagging MT for route)

37. Mount Powell (see Peakbagging Montana for route)

41. Red Mountain (see Peakbagging Montana for route)

42. Black Mountain:
route thanks to Dan Saxton

46. Table Mountain
Peakbagging MT route.
The Hell Roaring Cabin is a
great place to stay for the
climb.

49. Ruby Benchmark (Peakbagging MT route)

54. Great Northern (see Peakbagging MT route)

59. Swan Peak (Squeezer Creek Route w/ Dan Saxton)

67. Holland Peak (see Peakbagging Montana routes)

73. McDonald Peak

83. Sunset Peak (from Notch Station)

89. Other P2K Peaks

90. Deemer Peak

94. Sonyok Mountain

98. Mount Calowahcan

108. Big Hole Peak

109. Lake Mountain, Scapegoat: N. Fk. Blackfoot TH

112. Steamboat Traverse

122. Piquette Mountain

125. Gunsight Mountain

130. Heaven’s Peak

142. Rocky Mountaineers: Bitterroots

143. The Shard (see Michael Hoyt’s book for route)

146. Boulder Peak/East Boulder Peak (see Hoyt’s route)

153. South Heavenly Twin

158. Rocky Mountaineers: Missions

159. Kakashe and Flattop

168. Gray Wolf

176. East and West Saint Marys

182. Rocky Mountaineers: Swan

183. Fisher and Ptarmigan

195. Wolverine and Carmine Peaks

203. Count Peak
Matt Benchark and Crescent
Mountain can also be
accessed from this trail.

211. Leota, Marshall, Pyramid loop