Sawtooth Wilderness Hikes

Just complete our hike through the Sawtooth wilderness. It was a 3 day adventure spanning about 30 miles. We started out at Redfish Lake and ended up at Petit Lake. We had an employee at redsifh Lodge shuttle our car for 30.00 dollars.

Our first day we arrived at Redfish at 8:30 in the morning and rode the shuttle across the lake for 10.00/person. The shuttle leaves on demand of two or more people so the wait was only 20 minutes or so.

From the Redfish trailhead we hiked up to flatrock junction. This is about a 3.5 mile hike. We stopped here and slid on the rocks and ate lunch. We then headed up to Cramer Lakes. The lakes were beautiful with the arrowhead in the background and the water fall from upper to middle cramer lake

After playing around at Cramer we hiked over cramer divide. This divide is not for the faint in heart. It is about a 1900 vertical feet climb amongst rock slides. We made it to the top of the pass about 6:00 at night at made it to our final destination of Hidden Lake at 7:00. This lake was great for fishing and the fish were biting about every cast, but they were quite small 6" or less.

After a good nights rest we headed out to Toxaway Lake. We passed a few lakes on our way there. Virginia and Edna. Sand Pass between Edna and Toxayay was also steep but the trail was much smoother. We dropped our packs in the saddle and took a quick hike to one of the nearby peaks. We could seee almost al of the sawtooth wilderness range and it was well worth the hike.

Out of Toxawya was are last mountain pass. Snowyside Pass. The views from here were also incredible. We arrived at our final destination of Alice Lake about 6:00 at night ate some dinner and enjoyed the views.

We left for Petit the next morning and arrived there about 11:00. The views from Petit were spectaculat and I would liek to hike the other way sometime to really enjoy them.

The trip was a huge success. I will post pictures and maps in the following days for all that are interested.