Back to the Sawtooths

Dad and Nick were in town last weekend for a trip to the Sawtooth Mountains. While Mom and Dad were here over the summer, we discovered the Iron Creek Trail which leads up into the mountains and travels past Alpine Lake and Sawtooth Lake. We didn't have enough time to hike it in August so we did it last weekend instead.

The trail is 5 miles each way and about 12oo feet of vertical to Sawtooth Lake. I got to play with my GPS and track our speed, altitude and distance the whole way. Dad played cameraman with his new camera. The weather wasn't perfect, cool and rainy with clouds blowing in all the time, but the hike itself wasn't really that bad and the views were amazing.

Here are Nick and I on the trail.


Here is Alpine Lake.

Here is Sawtooth Lake, it is actually much bigger than Alpine Lake but it doesn't really come through in the photos.



Three happy people because we are about to start back down.



It snowed overnight while we were there. Winter comes quick in Idaho. Ski season is right around the corner.