I guess it's been a while since I've updated you-all.
Taking a day-off today after a nice hike yesterday on the Iron Creek trail to Sawtooth Lake just west of Stanley, ID. Real spectacular scenery in the Sawtooth Mts. Every bit as spectacular as the Tetons in my opinion, though some of my photo's are back-dropped by smoke from fires all around. Inversions kept the smoke at lower elevations so we did enjoy healthier air and sun, though we started and ended the hike in smoke.
There's a big fire-fighting camp here in town, a fire very near to the northeast and another a dozen or so miles west of here. I drove here from Montana two days ago, along & down the North-Fork Salmon then up the Salmon past the South-fork, encountering smoke so thick the sun was a dark-orange cinder - the thickest smoke I've ever experienced (though unfortunately the sun was still too bright relative to the rest of the scene for my camera to properly capture - I'll have to manually "fix" the color...)
Staying for the next few days at the house Sandy's former landlord in Michigan is building here. We may do another overnight cross-country scramble up a nearby Mt this weekend. Then Sandy & I plan to head west passing by Hells Canyon at the border with Oregon before heading northeast to Glacier. We may do that in her car, returning here before she heads west and I east.
Gary
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