Sawtooth Wilderness, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, ID

Dates

Aug 1st - Aug 7th 2010

Service Project

Trail maintenance

Free Days

Dayhiking, fishing, swimming, photography, wildlife & wildflower viewing

Accommodations

Backpack camping

Trip Rating

Strenuous : 4-mile backpack, digging, shoveling, bending, heavy-lifting. Pack animal supported.

Leaders

Gayle Marechal
Bunny Marechal

Equipment

Central Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness and White Cloud Mountains are known for the rugged grandeur of their soaring peaks over 10,000-feet, flowery mountain meadows, crystal lakes, towering alpine forests, and abundant wildlife, including elk, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, black bear, and wolves. Backpacking and hiking are spectacular in this country, and trout fishing is exceptional in backcountry lakes and streams as well as the headwaters of the Salmon River, the fabled “River of No Return”.

Our service project will be conducting trail maintenance on the Sawtooth Lake Trail. This lovely high mountain trail provides access to visitors seeking excellent fishing and hunting in the rugged Sawtooth Range. The project will entail heavy lifting, a lot of rock work, including some cribbing (a type of construction to widen a shelf trail) as well as picking out and baring rocks as needed. On our free day we can relax, swim, fish, photograph, and hike to Sawtooth Lake or to many of the numerous no name lakes in the area.