Idaho Sawthooths

“did i git in under the wire? or should I hold off on the snow worthy hiking boots and go down to peru?....:)”

“Full? How so? The wilderness area alone is 210,000 acres. Surely there's room for one lil'ol om...”

“OM is in. yo bear!”

“for those signed up for this hike send me an email with your current address. thanks jer
jerbear@netzero.com”

“the attendees have mail! yo bear”

“attendees....?......
should I bring my formalwear?...heh”

“you got formal wear?!!!!! DFWM! yo bear!”

“booked my flight. Yo bear!”

“If they change my flight one more time, I am going to scream.”

“They seem to only change mine, on the return flight! 4 times so far! Poppa, you are not alone! Yo bear!”

“flight is booked. arrive 4th @ 4 PM. Leave the 12th @ 7:43 AM”

“Gotcha, what about the van? yo bear!”

“working on it”

“Ok. U da man!”

“I know you said the trip is full but I always like to test limits. I have a friend in Idaho I want to visit and it would be fun to tag a backpacking trip on to a visit with her...”

“we have 7 persons signed up and confirmed. 8 we need another permit system. I dont know what to say. let me thunk it. And get some feedback. jer”

“I thought group sizes are limited to 12?

What are your dates?”

“under 8 you can self register. Over 8 you must go and get permits. We will not be there in time to do that sat and i believe they are closed on sundays. Theymay be closed on Sat and sun. this is late season for them. the lodge shuts down that weekend.”

“We recently had about 20 people on a trip in the Sawtooths. We divided into two parties of about 10, and did a loop in two directions simultaneously. One group found the trail register out of permit forms, the other group filled out a permit at their trail register. We didn't see a ranger on the 4 day trip. If I were you I'd just sign in as two groups, and do parallel routes.”

“If I were you... I would be in ID! LOL! Thanks bob. Yo bear!”

“took care of the reservation on the van rental today. sent details in an email to everyone (i think).”

“Good job and looked like the email made it. I have requested those needing fuel to send me there request and Dave will pick it up. Other than that? Yo bear! 26 days and we be hikin!”

“21 days! i'm pumped!!!”

“yowza!”

“Yo Bear... Check out Frontier Airline. I hear they have some great deals out west. Specially on the return flight! If you don't care about your time, your luggage, your sanity, they're the airline for you. Ask for Eileen, she's the best! I'm guessing she's through with her training by now!
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“lol!”

“I got my gear out of storage, so everything is good. Long story, but I was close to bailing on this trip. I am trying to buy a house and things are not going well. I am still going to be there hell or high water.

Jerbear, I will send you my final flight schedule next week. I am sure they will change it at least one more time before we depart.”

“Does anyone know where to get a patch of Sawtooth? With the agenda that we have, I am wondering if we are going to have enough time to stop and look. I try and get one for every trip.

I am also going to bring my fly rod. Is there an opportunity to get a licenses? If not, I will just "fly under the radar"”

“is that something rei might have? if they would, i'll look while there picking up everyone's fuel saturday morning. maybe we'll pass some little store while in route that will have them.”

“~~~~i got a ticket to ride
i got a ticket to ri i ide
i got a ticket to ride
but he don't care.....
my baby don't care...~~~~

but wait...i don't have a baby.

oboy, its for real now....i got a glimpse of the sawtooths from the plane coming back from calgary thru salt lake city last week....all the "little pools" of water dotting the terrain ---- bet the fishing will be good bigpoppa! i recently inherited a fly rod..but not sure it will "pack " down. i will bring if it does, it is very light”

“Baumme...will be sending you the fuel request/order.
Big poppa, I am sure we can get you a fishing tag somewhere.enroute to the trail. OR you could see if you can go online and register. for Idaho! Yo bear!
Hey OMshanti!”

“pimp out #&%!$ ez!”

“that should read:

pimp out b itch ez!”

“I never thought about the online fishing tag. I am so old school.”

“Yaaaa!;)”

“Just in case anyone was even a little bit worried about this trip, don't be. You may not know this, but Jerbear is a bonified, honest, Teton National Park Jr. Ranger, examined, certified and patched. It can't get any better than that. Yo Bear!

Have fun. Wish I was with you....”

“But, did Jerbear take the oath?




I did :) Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Jr. Ranger”

“yes, i am oathed! yo bear!”

“Well, I guess I should thinking about packing for this trip. My stuff is scattered to the four winds. Don't even ask me about food. I did get my fising tag for four days. So I guess that is progress. How many days do I have left? UHG. Will you guys just feed me and I will give you some money?”

“well we can all just eat fish. Yo bear. I am packing also!”

“believe it or not, I got everything aired out, checked for integrity and I did a test drive of the pack this weekend..got a sweet deal on a pair of Asolo goretex litehikers and been wearing em in .........food...i made some brownies to pack,...but I have eaten a good portion this weekend.....counting the days....”

“i talked to jerbear today. he said his computer has a virus and he can't get to the internet.

don't be worried if you email him or post here and he doesn't respond. he'll be there saturday.”

“yo bear! I am back.”

“Has your trip happened yet? We finsished ours, an 8 day trip with 4 adults and 3 scouts. One parent joined us halfway through the trip.

We started at Petit Lake, and headed to
Toxaway lake, or a lake near Toxaway, then to
Edna, via Edith lake, then to
Cramer, then to
Alpine, then to
Baron. From Baron, we hiked 10 miles to Sawtooth, descending 2500' on the way, and ascending 2600' back up to Sawtooth lake.

We had no mosquitoes, we caught a few fish, and nobody got hurt. Great trip with incredible scenery. As we entered the wilderness area, the registration box was out of permits, so we hiked the whole way with no permits, and didn't see any rangers, and few other people. Bob
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“Bob, Its coming up this weekend.Nice to hear no bugs.Thanks for the heads up. Were you allowed fires? We are doing redfish shuttle -camer-ardith-toxaway- hellroaring-decker lake and out redfish shuttle. yo bear.Want to join us?”

“My mouth is watering. Bastages!
:)”

“wish I could join you! There are no fires on the Alice Toxaway Loop, so I took that to mean fires are OK in other places. Cramer is bootiful, with camping between the two lakes, with a neat water fall between the two lakes.

Camping at Toxaway is either at the western end, in what looks like large horse camp areas, but about midway there is a rocky peninsula jutting out in the lake about 75 feet. On either side of the peninsula, and at the base of the peninsula are nice camping areas.

We didn't go to Ardeth. We went from Toxaway via Edith to Edna, and caught some fair sized fish at Edna.

Its all nice country, you will enjoy.”

“33 lbs. sans water. got warm clothes, i see they're calling for upper 20's in stanley for 4 of the nights.”

“We got 26 degrees in July at Toxaway lake last year. Last week it never broke 32. Its the freezing tempts that kills off the mosquitoes.

33 pounds with food for how many days? That sounds nice and light.”

“We have a person in Boise! Who yey!”