Stanley Lake Creek.
Mountain bikers can ride 5.7 miles to the wilderness boundary up Stanley Lake Creek, though it the riding gets pretty difficult at the 4.5-mile mark.
Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) grows abundantly in the 2006 Trailhead Fire scar at the head of Stanley Lake Creek.
Fall colors highlight the underbrush beneath blackened and dead tree stumps.
The Trailhead Fire burned intensely in the upper Stanley Lake Creek basin.
Old trail sign at the junction at the Observation Divide.
Fall colors decorate the headwaters of Stanley Lake Creek.
Looking down Stanley Lake Creek with McGown Peak towering high above the drainage.
Observation Peak offers great views of Mount Regan.
Looking south across the Trail Creek drainage with Warbonnet Spire and Tohobit Peak in the far center distance.
The north face of Pig Baron Spire and El Pima (Fishook Spire) in the Goat Creek drainage.
Warbonnet Spire and the north face of Tohobit Peak can be inspected from the summit of Observation Peak.
Mount Regan from the Observation Peak Trail.
Looking across the badly burned Trail Creek drainage (Trailhead Fire in 2006) to Mount Regan (left summit).
Moonrise over Mount Regan.
Sunset from Observation Peak.
A sunset view of the impressive granite spires along the head of Baron and Goat Creeks.
Fall colors at the end of the day near the summit of Observation Peak.
A hiker walks by headlamp to an overlook near the Observation Peak Trail.