During 2025, Liv Douglas established a new record of 202 Snake River Plain Peaks climbed. This is far more than any other climbers on LOJ. The second-place climber is Rick Baugher with 65 peaks. Liv’s journey on Idaho’s Snake River Plain began in May 2019 in, most appropriately, the Craters of the Moon National Monument. By calendar year, he has reached the summits of Idaho’s Snake River Plain buttes (and other features) as follows: 2019 (21), 2020 (7), 2021 (32), 2022 (34), 2023 (10), 2024 (20), and 2025 (78).

The south side of Big Southern Butte and the steep, south gully that leads directly to the summit. Livingston Douglas Photo

In 2025, he explored many remote SRP peaks like Triplet Butte near the ID/NV border as well as many obscure peaks between Rogerson and Bruneau. In terms of elevation, his SRP peaks range from Pickle Butte (2,319 feet) to the Twin Falls County HP (7,860 feet). The highest SRP butte he has climbed is the impressive Big Southern Butte (7,560 feet). Of course, Liv does mostly higher-elevation mountain climbing in Idaho. His Snake River Plain accomplishments are less than 10% of his overall body of work in Idaho’s mountains.

Your greatest challenge in tackling the Snake River Plain peaks may be driving the miles and miles of sandy, rocky, narrow, sagebrush-clogged BLM roads to get near a peak. This is probably why so many of the 380 peaks on Idaho’s Snake River Plain have no recorded ascents. Only 87 of the 380 peaks are ranked summits, which is also a deterrent to some climbers.

Liv’s contributions to the IACG website’s coverage of the Snake River Plain are extensive. His name is on the byline of 187 of the website’s 223 Snake River Plain peaks. He also contributed a research piece on the Snake River Plain in January 2025 (“Exploring the Snake River Plain”). He has plans to climb more of Idaho’s Snake River Plain peaks over the next several years.

The Snake River Plain Peaks include buttes, crater rims, hills, mountains, cones, dunes, tables, mesas, ridges, knolls, points, and WSA/county high points. Idaho’s Snake River Plain covers a vast area and includes a whopping 380 total peaks, according to Liv’s Custom List on LOJ.  You can also view your progress on the list. Many of these peaks have no recorded ascents. You should consult Sheldon Bluestein’s “Exploring Idaho’s High Desert” (Second Edition, 1991), although it is somewhat limited on its peak coverage.