The bridge over Fall Creek near the trailhead.
A view down the canyon on the lower Fall Creek Trail. The Devil's Bedstead towers in the background.
Doing a quick map check at the junction with the left fork of Fall Creek.
A view into the headwaters of the left fork of Fall Creek. Pyramid Peak towers in the distance.
The transition out of a sagebrush landscape happens at about 9,400 feet.
In the upper third of the canyon hikers cross the Wildhorse Detachment Fault, and the rocks change from dark sedimentary layers to light gray granite.
Cruising through expansive open meadows above 10,000 feet in the alpine zones.
Beautiful creeks meander through high alpine meadows.
The alpine basin at the head of the left fork of Fall Creek.
A backpacker looks for a campsite at the end of the grassy medows.
Descending talus slopes down the north side of Altair Peak to the grassy alpine meadows at the head of the left fork of Fall Creek.