Sunday, August 30, 2015

Grand Sawtooth Loop

Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho

We drove to Baker City where we spent the night, then drove to Grandjean to hike the Grand Sawtooth Loop.  5 nights and 6 days on the trail, then we headed through Stanley to Redfish Lake Lodge to check it out.  We then spend one more night at Fourth of July Lake before heading back to Oregon.  Very scenic hike.

The pictures are not in the exact order we saw them, but pretty close.... Thanks Blogger for a great user interface.... :(

Sunset just east of Pendleton Oregon

Pendleton Round Up Statue
Eastern Oregon early morning wildfire smoke

Inside historic Sawtooth Lodge in Grandjean

Historic Sawtooth Lodge in Grandjean

Sunset and bear bag at Trail Creek Lake

Late light on Trail Creek Lake
Lake just past Sawtooth Lake

View from Baron Creek campsite

Can you spot the Mule Deer?

Looking back from our start at Trail Creek Lake

Looking west and wildfire smoke towards Grandjean

Looking south back towards Trail Creek Lake

Mt Regan right before you cross over the pass along the trail

Heading down to the North Fork Baron Creek canyon

Old fire damage on the north end of the loop

Quartz seam

Sawtooth Lake Pano

Sawtooth Lake right when you get over the pass

Looking at old fire damage before Sawtooth Lake

More old fire damage
Upper Baron Lake

Baron Lake Pano


Upper Baron Lake

Looking back at Upper Baron and Baron Lakes as you climb the pass

Looking back down the lower Barron Creek Canyon

Lower Cramer lake

Looking back Baron Creek Canyon

Night view from tent in the lower Baron Creek Canyon


Near the Redfish creek trail intersection


Upper Baron Creek Canyon


Mule Deer at Ardeth Lake

Ardeth Lake pano

Cramer Divide

Cramer Divide

Heading up to Cramer Divide

Heading up to Cramer Divide

Night Sky Lower Cramer Lake

Middle Cramer Lake

Mule Deer Ardeth Lake

Upper Cramer Lake

Just above Upper Cramer lake heading up to Cramer Divide
Heading up to Cramer Divide

Elk Lake

Benedict Creek

Lake Ingeborg

Just after Benedict Lake

Pink Granite of the Sawtooths

Rockslide Lake

Unnamed lake before Ingeborg Lake

Spangle Lake

Trail after Spangle Lake

Downed trees at Benedict Lake
One of the few squirrels who weren't begging for food.

Spangle Lake Pano
11 mile fire to the north on the way to Fourth of July Lake

Aspen on the South Fork of the Payette River

11 mile fire as viewed from Stanley Idaho

Elk Lake

Fourth of July Lake

Fourth of July Lake

Fourth of July Lake Pano

Indian Paintbrush

Moon rising over Fourth of July Lake

Ponderosa Pine on the South Fork of the Payette River
Fern Falls along the South Fork of the Payette River
Fall is one the way

Redfish lake

Redfish Lake Lodge


Fire damage on the Fourth of July Creek road

Morning on the Fourth of July Lake

Fourth of July Lake night sky

Moon rising over Fourth of July Lake
Sawthooth Pano from Fourth of July Creek road


Back to the smoke of eastern Oregon


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