Blodgett Canyon

A trailhead is located at the mouth of the canyon, just west of the community of Hamilton and at an elevation of 4,000 feet (m).

The vertical canyon walls in the lower section rise over 2,000 feet (610 m) above Blodgett Creek.

The canyons in this region were carved out by ice age glaciers, which left behind U-shaped valleys, moraines, hanging valleys, and steeply carved granite mountains, cliffs, and cirques, all of which are visible within Blodgett Canyon.

The glacial valley is carved into granitic rocks of the Bitterroot Lobe of the Idaho Batholith,[1] a Late Cretaceous to Paleocene[2] intrusive body emplaced by subduction beneath the western margin of North America.

The tallest route is the South Face of Flathead Buttress, at about 1,200 feet of sustained vertical.