Red Fish Lake Trip

Greg and I took a relaxing trip to Stanley and Redfish Lake. To get there we took the northern route through Arco and Challis.

As we pulled into Stanley the rain was really coming down and so was the hail! It was sliding off the roofs and making piles of ice! Notice you can't even see the mountains because of all the clouds.

The next day we had planned to take a boat across the lake and do some hiking there, but it rained all day. ALL day without letting up at all! We still had fun just driving to several lakes and enjoying the fresh air. It was cold though. Here is a sitka columbine. It cleared up enough in the evening for us to hike up to the peak behind the Creekside lodge and take a picture of Stanley.


















On Saturday we had planned to hike to Sawtooth lake, but it was very cold and foggy. The forcast was for more rain, and possibly even snow in the mountains!

We decided to stay closer to civilization. We took the shuttle across the lake and did a little hiking there. We hiked around the lake to one of my favorite places where a small waterfall comes down into the lake. The water make a cool spray and it looks like a little fairyland with the moss and little mushrooms and flowers.



Then we hiked up to the lily ponds. Here is some interesting moss we saw with little moss flowers? We saw a tiny frog on one of the lily pads on the pond. There were wildflowers everywhere and huckleberries too! Yum!


A sign said there was a waterfall less than a mile further so we hiked up to it.

It beautiful big waterfall that I had never seen before! All those years of hiking above the lake and I never got up to it!

The falls drops about 10 feet! It doesn't look like it because this picture was taken from a distance. It's a big roaring waterfall!

Later as we waited for the shuttle to take us back, a curious deer gave us several opportunities to take her picture. The shuttle ride back was fun too.

On Sunday, we drove home. We planned on a short walk to another lake above Galena pass. It turned into more of a hike than we had planned. Was that really only 1 1/2 miles? It seemed a lot longer, and was quite steep, unlike what the guidebook claimed!















It was not what we had expected, but we had a great time anyway on our Sawtooth Vacation.