Olympian’s $6.8M house for sale on Bogus Basin Road. Could it set a Boise record?

The sky-scraping house at 12001 Bogus Basin Road is one of the highest homes in Ada County. Soon, it could fetch the loftiest price Boise has ever seen.

On Sunday, Olympic biathlete turned outdoor-gear maker Glen Eberle listed his house — the last one you see on the drive from downtown Boise up to Bogus Basin — for $6.8 million. That’s a record asking price for a Boise address, Boise Regional Realtors President Susan Weaver told the Idaho Statesman.

Built in 2015, the four-bed, 5.5-bath home sits among huge granite boulders at an oxbow in the road about 10 miles above downtown. “The Overlook” spans more than 7,000 square feet on 4.7 acres roughly a half mile above the Hawkins Reserve trailhead.

Troy Owens and Mogie Holm, agents with Compass, are selling the house. The Wall Street Journal reported the property was up for sale on April 12 after hearing about the pending listing through Owens’ colleagues at Compass, he said.

Owens told the Idaho Statesman on Tuesday that the higher end of the Boise real estate market remains strong despite rising interest rates following the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It did dip, but it doesn’t seem like the people buying these houses are as affected by rates,” he said.

Still, his newest listing is “an outlier,” Owens said, particularly for a property with a Boise address.

In some 14 years working in the Treasure Valley, this is the most expensive home Owens has listed; his previous high sold went for around $5 million. There’s one other home one the market listed around that price in Boise as of Tuesday, he said. Owens also found three in Eagle — where lots, as well as houses, tend to be bigger — north of $5 million.

Even if commands the full asking price, the house wouldn’t be the most expensive ever sold in the Treasure Valley. A new construction on 5.5 acres in Eagle sold for $6.875 million in July 2025, according to Weaver, the Boise Regional Realtors president and a Silvercreek Realty Group Realtor.

To Owens, though, the Bogus house’s unique location and architecture justify the record-breaking ask.

“The views. The privacy. It seems like it’s a long way from town, but it’s only about 20 minutes,” he said. “It’s literally built into the mountain, around boulders.”

The home includes a gym, home theater and garage space for seven cars. But its principal feature is its vista, embraced in design by a massive patio set off from the living room by a set of retractable glass walls.

“At night, you feel like you’re in an airplane arriving into the valley below,” Eberle said in an April 12 Instagram post.

Eberle built the house in 2015. Born in Bellevue, Washington, Eberle competed as a 20-year-old in men’s 20 kilometer biathalon during the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics. His business career grew out of his experience in shooting sports: His company, Boise-based Eberlestock, initially redesigned the rifle stocks for other biathletes. It has since grown into a manufacturer specializing in packs for hunting, law enforcement and the U.S. military.

In his post, Eberle said that his “life has moved on” from the house on Bogus Basin Road. He’s building a new home, and trying his hand at a new sport: golf.

Since construction wrapped, the property’s assessed value has nearly tripled, from $1.91 million in 2016 to $5.39 million last year, according to the Ada County Assessor’s Office. The property its in unincorporated Ada County, though it carries a Boise address.

“I built the whole house around that granite that it embraces, and around a covered balcony that looks northeast, built to snuggle under a blanket with a got drink and watch the rain, snow and clouds play on the mountain,” Eberle wrote of his Boise residence. “It is a rare, special and one-of-a-kind place.”