Hot Springs Peak at an elevation of 7,680’ is the highest point on the Skedaddle Mountains. So named for the Amedee and Wendel Hot Springs located at the base of the mountain. Skedaddle was a Civil War term used primarily by Southerners to “flee.” The mountain was named by the Kidder & Ives state boundary survey of 1863, when they had a skirmish with the Smoke Creek band of Paiutes, in which ultimately the latter fled.