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GT-Winter (Pg24-26) End of the Season Hike, & a Miracle Goat second largest of the all very beautiful lakes in this area. slipping away, it seemed obligatory to get busy and reckon, there is almost never any camping at this location Sensing the end of the high-country hiking season rapidly either.For whatever reason, mostly the fixation on Edna Lake I From this plan a final 2018 hike. Since I was still entertaining the point there is uppossibility there on of a getting previous back trip, up that into seemed Idaho’s like10 Lakes an obvious Basin a long climb to look for the hiking pole that I inadvertently abandoned miles up the choice. And while we’re at it, maybeth we can explore some passof 400 and ft &1.3 .7 more of the territory around this area. miles down 3So, trailheads on Monday, that September allow access 10 to, early this AM,area, I oneheaded in Atlanta, for the to Ardeth Grandjean, ID trailhead. It is pertinent to note that there are Lake, one ID, one up in the Stanley Basin, and one at Grandjean. Since of the most sinceaffording that theis the fuel closest to go oneon these to where adventures I live. is always my largest question, choosing the TH at Granjean was obvious, deepbeautiful into lakesmy energy of all reserves.those in this area. Continuing after I arrived at the TH early, a good thing, since this is a long Ardeth was out of the question, because I was already Once again setting up a camp required putting up a tarp trail, at best consuming the better part of two days. So after a long day of slogging up the middle fork of the Payette River, as the sky was again communicating ‘beware!’ Oddly it I arrived at a camping spot near Elk Lake at 11.6 miles on andturned I was out more to be than a beautiful ready to evening,answer. and once the bats began surfing for bugs, the tent and bag began calling, the GPS… short of daylight, and shorter yet of energy. I had From inside the tent, the morning seemed unusually Assemblingoriginally planned a campsite to get wasas far a ashurried the up-drainage business crossingbecause inof theaddition river, butto water that just pumping, wasn’t going dinner, to happen.tent up and such, large grey clouds were boiling over the ridge to the west, a tarp was necessary as the weather was suggesting that dark. Poking the head out the tent flap resolved why… the sky could possibly begin dripping overnight. theand tentit looked it began like lightly it just snowing, might be making turning the sour decision on all toof boltthe Sawtooth’s a shoo-in. September hikers. Soon after I got out of Thankfully, morning arrived rain-free, soas getting soon on theas trail again fairly early being the overriding concern. So wanting to quit at this point in the hike, I reluctantly we go up to the loadedSo after up a longthe boysperiod and of headeddancing down around, the buttrail not towards really riverpossible, crossing off home. about 1-1/2 miles up the mountains to the east, and one very large mountain area trail. Luckily inNo particular more than was 1000 brilliantly feet down lit theup by trail, the I sun.looked That over stopped at the there was a way to cross this this was one. I saw it as similar to a rainbow. Immediately particularly doingme cold. a 180,I believe I headed in signs up from the ourtrail creator, back to and the in mycamping mind wide stream area and on up area without putting on sandals (always a blessing!), so towards the 10 we continued up, and up, and up, arriving at Virginia Lake Lake Basin. immediate area, this is the smallest & lightest travelled more or less early afternoon. Of the three lakes in this a grunt up into thisIt was area, a bit and of lake/campsite, which is unfortunate as it has some of the by the time I nicest lakeside camping I have seen. Edna Lake, about reached the .65 mile on up the trail, is the go-to place for all hikers, spectacular including theJ outfitters, so the camping is pretty well beat company. altitude of this down… while poor old Virginia Lake pines away for some basin, the sun had come out, the sky was crystal and the clouds were Moving on, and passing Edna Lake, while taking the about ¾ mile which brought us to Vernon Lake, the in the basin. requisite number of pictures, we continued up the trail making a perfect counterpoint to brilliance of thePage lakes 23 I was thoroughly taken with this particular area, and bolted. Had I done so, I could have possibly prevented a spent a considerable period moseying around all the but… lakes in this basin. However, all good things must come whole lot of angst, to an end, and anticipating another long day, I continued some distance, I made the unpleasant decision to head on toSo theafter TH a with period only of George yelling, (George and going was not back really up investedthe trail in this plan as he was bleating occasionally noting that we on over the almost 9000’ pass to the Spangle Lakes, I had my plan in mind that I needed to be out by tomorrow stopping for lunch at Little Spangle. I’m Retired!! However, subsequent events would prove that I needed to be out on were ‘incomplete’ as a group). schedule.evening (?? Not sure why… TH showed up on schedule and we headed home, after seeing a whole lot of lakes, and 49 miles of trekking. To ). So I motored on past, up and away from the throwingsay that Ithe was whole majorly hiking bummed thing into doesn’t the history even binbegin I was to Larger Spangle Lake, past Ingeborg Lake, and briefly divides, one socommunicate distraught. my frame of mind. I even contemplated passed Rock Slide Lake. Soon after rockslide,branch this going trail up to Three Island Lake, However, that night, I made up a full-page flyer with and the other morning, headed back to the TH. Along the way I stopped the information and Bodgan’s picture on it, and in the down past Benedict Lake, at the FS station, gave them a flyer plus the story, stopped to another again at the Sawtooth Lodge handed out another flyer and intersection, the story, and placed one flyer up at the TH sign-in station. which travels I then headed back up the trail as far as Taylor Spring, 5-miles from the TH, calling out his name and hoping. Bogdan, that is prior to him ‘taking his leave’ one branch of I had to return home empty-handed, hoping that my of this particular excursion. and Plummer Hope may spring eternal, but it didn’t spring for me, and lakes, and on eventually the Queens Riverup todrainage, Everly dispensingflyers and/or would my story/information eventuallyand the other, back my to thechoice TH. for this trip, follows Benedict The days began to Creek back to the middle fork of the Payette River, and produce some fruit. roll past, and at some had been a very, very long day, and I was really dragging. point it was necessary IBy was the attempting time I finally to gotget backback to to the the middle camping fork area trail, at thisthe to give up hoping that questioning whether or not I was going to actually make he might show up at it.middle So when fork theriver river crossing, crossing but cameevery intostep view,seemed it was to be a maybe… just maybe very body recovery). Once again, pushing towards darkness, dinner & tent the TH (We had past the point where a rescue becomes a welcome sight for this exceptionally tired hiker. Two weeks, minus one day, the caller-ID on my phone weather had improved to the point where a tarp seemed NO up was a very hurried affair, the one blessing being that noted: ‘Sawtooth Lodge’. Before I even answered the phone I said out loud, “There is bloody way!!” superfluous. I answered the phone to hear, “Hi, my name is Gabe Welz, toNext be morning,a very ambitious early breakfast, day. and on towards the TH. and I found your goat.” At the time, I rhetorically noted, Since it was almost 14 miles ahead, this was promising Later, sometime around early afternoon, this trip possibly“That’s impossible!” have survived I just nearly couldn’t two weeks get my in arms the wilderness. around the took a very unpleasant turn. concept that this animal, with no horns for defense, could two years! Good grief, I’ve had two predator encounters in the last At about the 7.5 mile point from the TH, I and George got separated from Bogdan. The exact mechanics of that Needless to say, the next morning I blasted out of here event are too long for this write-up, but at the time I toback pick up him to the up Sawtooth(Incidentally, Lodge, the whereSawtooth the Lodgeoutfitters puts there on a thatwas Iafraid should to have go running quickly aftertied up him George, where and I thought then gone he had tied him up and kept care of him until I could return runninghad gone back for fear up theof losing trail where George. I was20/20 sure hindsight Bogdan sayshad great breakfast!). But the story does not end there, as Gabe Welz,Page the 24 From there, Gabe took Bogdan to the Sawtooth Lodge, individual that found Bogdan, and what he had to do history.
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