This was a "beat the rush" 3 day Labor Day outing on Birch Creek North of Dillon, Montana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Mountains_). Contrary to the usual Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest travel plans, the Pioneers appear to have been neglected thus far. We did not find any...
Idaho has two Goat lakes (maybe more), one in the Sawtooths and one in the Pioneer mountains. This TR is the latter of the two. One accesses the trailhead from Copper Basin off of Trail Creek road, which is the road between Sun Valley and McKay. There are two nearly parallel trails going in...