Alpine Creek tumbles over boulders mid-way up the canyon.
Alpine Creek provides welcome relief along the trail.
A hiker descends the trail down Alpine Canyon with Perfect Peak (10,269') towering behind.
Alpine Canyon Trail winding through lodgepole pines.
Rock Fringe (Epilobium angustifolium) decorates rock crevices in the alpine basins.
Lake 8522, also known as South Alpine Lake, Casper Lake, or Leah Lake, is reached by an un-official user trail.
Looking down onto the string of unnamed lakes at 9,000 feet in the southern lobe of Alpine Creek Canyon.
High alpine snowfields.
The upper South Alpine Lake (8,722').
A backpacker cools off in the upper South Alpine Lake in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains.
Another unnamed lake in the northern lobe of the Alpine Creek Canyon.
A backpacker passes one of many lakes in the Alpine Canyon cirques.
Pretty flowers decorate the small alpine creeks that tumble down the basins.
Following the unmaintained trail up the northern lobe of Alpine Creek Canyon.
Scarlet paintbrush (Castilleja miniata).
Hiking among slender paintbrush (Castilleja gracillima) above 9,000 feet in the north lobe of Alpine Creek Canyon.
Skirting the shores of Lake 9167, also known as North Alpine Lake.
One of several unnamed lakes in the Alpine Creek basin.
North Alpine Lake beneath the stunning backdrop of Perfect Peak (10,269').
Showy daisy or fleabane (Erigeron speciosus) carpet the alpine meadows in August.
Climbing to the pass with the Flytrip Lake Basin above North Alpine Lake.
Mountain goats populate the cliffs and meadows of the Alpine Creek Cirques.
Snow in the pass above North Alpine Lake.