Back to Stanley!

We went back to Stanley and the Sawtooth Mountains this weekend. It was perfect! Cool nights and warm days. This time we camped at Stanley Lake.

Stanley Lake and Magoo Peak--named after a friend of ours

As usual, we set up camp in the woods and then went exploring. The forest and creek were a lot of fun.

T@B camp

The woods are pretty nice. Many of the Lodgepole Pines are under attack from bugs and that's sad, but I guess that is one of nature's ways to manage the forest.

Lovely, dark, and deep

This guy probably could help with the bug problem, but he spent more time flying around camp trying to rob us.

Thief!

We took a nice hike to see these falls. There was some growling about the length of the hike (wasn't me!).

The falls were a little hard to see

It had already frozen at night a few times but there were still flowers to see. The flowers curled up at night and came out during the day.

Sun Worshippers

It was another great trip. I hope we go again soon.

Is that Winter coming?

*Stanley Lake Inlet Campground (USFS) is a three paw camp. No hookups (we don't care) and fairly primitive, un-paved sites (we like that). It is really a four paw camp with great trail and lake access. Has a Bubba factor, though, with people driving too fast and dusting everyone else, and a couple of loud, stinky generators.

Growl! USFS and SNRA propose adding a 25-30 site campground and another boat launch which will overload the small lake with people and power boats. The lake is small enough that it should be a no motor lake.