Backpacking in the Sawtooths

 

We went on a brothers backpacking trip to the Sawtooth mountains.  Here is the gang on the way out from the car.
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This is what the lower country looked like.
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There must of been a microburst here about  a week prior that devastated the trees over a couple hundred yard area.
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This is the lake we camped at.  It was at a medium altitude.  There was still quite a bit of snow, but we had a nice place to pitch our tent.
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On the second day we did a day hike up to the higher altitude lakes.   The streams were all full due to the melting snow and created a beautiful waterfall.
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The higher up we got, the more snow we had to hike through.  It was pretty hard packed and was easy to walk on.  It was probably around 75 degrees even at the highest point we went to.
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Working on thawing.
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The highest lake in the drainage.  Still covered in snow and ice.
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On the way back down, we found this snowfall and waterfall.  Notice the skier about to jump off the cliff.

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It was a great trip and lot’s of fun to spend time with my brothers.
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Disneyland

As part of Adam’s homecoming celebration, we went with the Hawker family to Disneyland!  Two years ago we went to Disneyland with my family.  Laura was 6 months old, so this trip was total deja-vu.  The main difference was that the 6 month old baby was ours this time.  It also wasn’t a threatening rainy couple of days in February with an empty park.  It was super packed, but we still had a great time, and we got to repeat some of our favorite memories from last time.  Monte Cristo sandwich at the Blue Bayou, our favorite rides.  We even got the same amazing dinner at the Cheesecake Factory 🙂  Kathryn convinced me to go on It’s a Small World…and I liked it.  We got to take Ashley to the beach for the first time.

It was just a great trip, and it was lots of fun to have the whole Hawker family together.  Thank you Tim and Suzanne for the great trip!

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