"Trip report from 12-year old Terrence from WTA: Hi, we are the '' Mountain Goats" and today we climbed Hibox Peak. At the beginning of the hike you start on the Rachel lake trail and it is pretty flat. Soon you get into Box Canyon and you can see where Hibox peak is, up on the ridge to your right. After 2.3 miles you leave the Rachel Lake trail and head up the Hibox peak trail. The trail is SUPER steep and is never flat, but the views just keep getting better. Almost all of the elevation gain of this hike is after you reach the Rachel Lake trail. The weather became cloudy and the views went away. Up ahead we could see the outline of the Hibox Peak. Soon we got to a scree field and we looked for the best way to go up. If you do this hike make sure to bring helmets since it is steep and the rock is very loose and crumbly. We sent a lot of rocks tumbling down. We found a good place to go up and started up. In the beginning, the rock was stable but wet, later on the rock got worse and crumbly and was slippery. The final push was very steep as we made our way to the top. The views were disappointing because we could not see much in the clouds. Coming down took a long time, and ..." — BryHong8 • Sep 8, 2018

"I was looking for a shorter hike close to home, and have had Hibox mountain in my sights for a while now. I have heard that access to the trailhead becomes difficult in early winter so now is a good time to get in before the snow stops you. I read several reports of people bringing dogs with them to the summit, so I loaded up my canine mountaineers and headed over the pass. We left the Rachel Lake Trailhead at 7:45 and easily found the boot path after an opening with a clear view of the summit. As expected the bottom half of the route is filled with blowdowns and bushwhacking. Patches of slushy snow appeared around 5000 feet. where it was more than 2 feet deep I could kick in good steps but a lot of it was very shallow and slippery with just boots. There were two steep snowfields just below the ridge line where in ice axe would have been very helpful. I imagine that whoever brought a dog to the summit must have done so with much more snow, unless the dogs were carried for the last several hundred feet. We attempted to find a dog friendly route around the Northwest face, but it only got steeper the farther we went. I ended up leaving them to roll around in the mellow snow ba..." — Jeb • Oct 16, 2013

"A big climb to a rewarding alpine scramble with some of the best views in the region. Hibox towers over the eastern edge of Box Canyon and dominates the area. When you first see its rock pinnacle from the canyon floor it seems absurdly high above. With a bit more beta than 2 weeks ago (an aborted attempt after getting soaked in a maze of brush), I found the Hibox climber's path off the main trail with ease (300 ft AFTER the 2nd major clearing on the Rachel Lake Trail). It's steep, crude but never too hard to follow. In the upper slopes a few cairns help keep you on course. When you finally get to the base of the summit complex, the climber's path heads right across talus to the ridge (not up the gully). The scramble route I took went around the summit on the right side; there were a couple of sketchy places but fairly straightforward. There are several ways, another route climbs earlier. Today the forest fires to the east obscured distant peaks but the view was still one of the best. A classic! Car to car in 5 hr 30 min (30 min on summit)." — scott • Sep 23, 2012