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  1. Parma

    Sawtooths - Vernon, Ardeth, and Spangle Lakes

    July 16-20, 2015 A buddy of mine wanted to experience the goodness that is the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. So we found a good route that would be scenic and have some good lakes for fishing. He brought his two sons and I brought my younger brother. We drove up from Utah Wednesday after work and...
  2. lostlandscapes

    Big Boulder Lakes, White Clouds -- July 3-5, 2015

    @drclef and I took advantage of the long July 4th weekend and paid a visit to the Boulder White Cloud mountains of Central Idaho. A maiden visit for us, we were intrigued by it's dramatic granite ridge lines, lush, lake-dotted basins, and relative obscurity. Photographs that I'd seen online...
  3. Ben

    Snake River Petroglyphs, Swan Falls Dam to Wees Bar

    On sunday we went out to the Snake River at Swan Falls Dam. We walked across the dam and then down the river for three and a half miles to Wees Bar where i had read there were some good petroglyphs. We only saw a couple other people on the side of the river we were walking on, but on the other...
  4. Ben

    Boise River, Lucky Peak Reservoir to Barber Park

    Friday after work i went to go put my packraft on the water for a little more experience with it. There is a stretch of the Boise River that runs through town that people regularly float during the summer. I'd run that section a week before. Friday i decided to put in a little farther up the...
  5. Ben

    Craters of the Moon NM, the Wilderness Trail

    "Recreational use of the wilderness area has remained limited. Fewer than 100 people a year obtain overnight camping permits for the area." I have a national parks pass that expires this month, so i thought that i should try to squeeze a little more use out of it. I started looking at Craters...
  6. Ben

    Gooding City of Rocks, Coyote Creek

    We managed to get out this week end, finally, and we hiked about five miles around Gooding City of Rocks. I've been wanting to get back there for a while. I did an over night backpack there with my Dad and some of my brothers about fifteen years ago or so. It has hoodoos. This image shows the...
  7. Ben

    Mountain Home Craters

    Sunday my Dad wanted to do some geocaching in an interesting looking area, so Brittinei and i tagged along on my bike. May be half an hour to get to the area from the freeway. After that it is preferable to have a high clearance vehicle. My parents did it with a couple bumps to their santa fe in...
  8. Ben

    Sawtooths, Sawtooth Lake loop

    I did this hike in october 2013. It's amazing what first snows can do for mountains. Hiking in october is fantastic. I had perfect weather, it was one of the prettiest hikes i've ever done, and not only did i not see a single person on the trails, i didn't even see a sign of any one else. No...
  9. Ben

    Sawtooths overnight, november 2013

    Simple trip. Last year i decided to test the Sawtooths mid november. I was glad i went. I hiked up Baron Creek, very familiar to me. I camped on a snow covered platform above Baron Falls. It proceeded to dump powder through the night while i slept. The next day i booked it back to the car on...
  10. Ben

    Sawtooths, Toxaway loop plus. october

    The first week end of october here was unseasonably nice, so i was excited to get to the mountains. Temperatures at elevation were supposed to get up above sixty degrees, sun shine all week end long, and it had snowed up high just a week before, so it seemed it would look nice up there. I...
  11. Ben

    Sawtooths, 68 mile loop, August

    I've thought for a while on a larger loop through the sawtooths. early in august i took the time to do it. I wanted to do a hike with consecutive days of ~3,000' elevation so i could have some idea what to expect when i did the wonderland trail a week later. Here's what it looked like...
  12. Ben

    Sawtooths, Baron Creek and Goat Creek, July 2014

    In july i decided to try some off trail hiking in the Sawtooths. I had not done this before, any where really, but i wanted to, so i thought about it some. I decided to go up Baron Creek, a trail that i knew very well, and come back down Goat Creek, a drainage that i have never been in. Goat...
  13. Ben

    7 Devils loop, with mountain goats

    In july, partly on a friends particular interest, partly because it was some thing i'd wanted to do at some point, we hiked the Seven Devils loop. It's not long, almost 30 miles around the entire tiny range. The elevation isn't too high, around 7000' for most of it. Trail head access at Windy...
  14. Bob

    Idaho Lost.......River Range

    Along with @langutah we head out to check out some new country, the Lost River Range in Idaho. I worked in Challis many years ago so knew of it. Was looking for new places on GE and started checking it out. Looked promising. We got rained out of a Uinta trip and Art got interested in a link...
  15. Bob

    Idaho Lost........

    Teaser Picture.......Great Trip Art !
  16. Ben

    Baron Divide, Sawtooths, june 2014

    Still impatient for alpine backpacking, i went into the Sawtooths again the first full week end in june. The seventh and eighth. Really straight forward one night, out and back, but one of the biggest pay offs of the year. I was a little disappointed the week end before, but decided to go look...
  17. Ben

    South Fork Payette River, june

    As i've mentioned in a couple reports i have a hard time waiting for snow to melt to go backpacking. So i ended up venturing into the Sawtooths in june, to see what was going on up there. I actually left may 30. It was a relatively uneventful trip, but i learned some things. I drove up to the...
  18. Parma

    Sawtooths, Redfish Lake to Iron Creek

    So, I'm back from a great trip to Idaho with some family. We decided to do a family backpacking trip and settled on the Sawtooths. I've been there before, but haven't done a real backpacking trip in the Sawtooths. We left it up to my brother, the resident expert on all things Idaho, to choose...
  19. Dwm

    Sawtooths

    Incredible trip, deep snow on the pass. Wolves scattered ahead of us the entire trip.
  20. pstm13

    Sawtooth Lake, SNRA

    After reading several trip reports on this area I finally made a trip to the Sawtooths. I have lived in Idaho for several decades but have failed to visit the Sun Valley area. My wife and I did not have a lot of time so the trip was limited to one night. However, I plan to come back next summer...
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