This area includes part of the White Cloud Mountains east of Stanley. Goats in this area spend most of their time above timberline.

There are good mountain goats in this unit. Hunting is excellent for representative mountain goats with very few hunters failing to fill their tags most years. Horns are typically 7 ½-8 ½” long

This area borders Sawtooth Valley and Stanley, stretching west to the East Fork of the Salmon River. Most goats in this area stay on a series of peaks and ridges that run north from Castle Peak on the southern edge. Another ridge runs west along the southern edge with high points at Patterson Peak and Blackman Peak. Goat habitat is above timberline, which averages about 8,800 feet above sea level, but if pressured by hunters or predators some goats can wander into the sparse timber below. The terrain here is steep in most places.

Vegetation is sparse, but there is a lot of forage along small ledges and in pockets between talus slopes and rock slides. Lichens, mosses, grasses, willows, wildflowers and low shrubs grow in this alpine terrain. Mountains that are mostly covered with spruces, firs and pines can be found below treeline. Barren foothills and flats covered with sagebrush and wild grasses can be found at lower elevations.

Hunters typically hike or ride horses to reach goat country. A good access road on the eastern side of the high mountains is French Creek Road, which ends east of Crater Lake. Hunters can not drive ATVs or dirt bikes in the eastern portion of this unit except on roads built for and used by full-size vehicles. West of White Cloud Peaks hunters can drive dirt bikes on designated trails.

Hunters can camp along dirt roads or pack tents into the backcountry by horse or foot. Eleven campgrounds are on the northern boundary west of Clayton on Idaho Route 75. Lodging available in Stanley includes Sawtooth Hotel, Stanley High Country Inn and Mountain Village Resort.