Snowside Peak and Toxaway Lake from the summit of Parks Peak.
Warbonnet Spire and the North Face of Tohobit Peak can be inspected from the summit of Observation Peak.
The inlet beach at Stanley Lake is a great place to start or finish your hike out the Stanley Lake Creek Canyon.
Lady Face Falls on Stanley Lake Creek. Getting this view takes some dicey scrambling down granite slabs covered in granitic sand. Be careful near the edge!
Looking upstream across the South Fork of the Payette River near Taylor Springs and Big Meadows.
The Grand Mogul seen from the Bench Lakes Trail that connects Redfish Lake Lodge/Fishook Creek to the Redfish Inlet Trailhead.
Mount Everly sits at the head of Queens River. This sunset is looking across Lake 8,696.
A lot of the eastern half of the Sawtooths have experienced large fires in the last 20 years. This composition of light and dark across a burned landscape is beautiful.
The first light creeps into the South Fork of the Payette River from the summit of Pickett Mountain.
Smooth granite slabs and alpine blue. An unnamed lake above and to the west of Imogene Lake.
Payette Peak and Hidden Lake from near the Cramer Divide.
The lower Hell Roaring Trail makes a very gentle climb through an open lodgepole pine forest. The shrubby understory turns a briliant red.
Iron Creek at the Alpine Way/Sawtooth Lake junction.
In winter this same view of Goat Lake can be iced over and covered with snow.
Horstmann Peak (left) reflected in the still waters of Fishook Creek.
July wildflower bloom in Elk Meadow.
The upper Decker Creek Canyon was spared from severe burning in 2003. This is the view from the climb up and over to Grouse Creek.
Though badly scarred by the Trail Creek Fire in 2000, the lush green hillsides above Decker Creek are stunning even in August.
Clouds, shade, and serrated towers flank the Temple at the head of the Cramer Lakes Canyon.
A stunning waterfall connects the upper and middle Cramer Lakes.
Looking down the classic U-shaped valley of Redfish Lake Creek Canyon, showing much of the terrain covered in the first 4 miles of the hike to Cramer Lakes.
Decker Peak to a formation called The Arrowhead as seen from near the Cramer Divide.
A lone camper enjoys a spectacular view from an unnamed ridge in the Sawtooth Mountains.
Looking down onto the community of Atlanta from Peak 7,436.
Enjoying the sunset from a camp at 9,200 feet in the north lobe of Flytrip Basin.
The Flytrip Basin is a remote string of alpine lakes tucked deep in the heart of the Sawtooths.
Sawtooth Lake in July with Mount Regan in the background.
Evidence of scouring glaciers can be found throughout the range.
A backpacker looks down onto Alpine Lake and into the headwaters of Redfish Lake Creek Canyon
Looking down the Baron Creek drainage from a ridge above the lakes.
Weathered tree grain.
Hell Roaring Lake, one of several moraine bound lakes at the foot of the Sawtooths.
Beautiful plunge pool on the North Fork of Ross Creek.
Sunset colors the sky behind the classic "sawtooth" ridgeline that stretches from Monte Verita to Big Baron Spire.
Alpenglow lights up Monte Verita and Big Baron Spire above Baron Lake.