Burned (in 1994) but still majestic Douglas fir trees.
Sign at the junction of Johnson Creek and the Pats Lake Trail.
The trial from Johnson Lake to Pats Lake was badly burned in the Rabbit Creek fire in 1994. It is now a beautiful riot of colorful shrubs, flowers, and young evergreen trees.
Artistic fire scars.
Pearly-everlasting (Anaphalis morgaritacea).
Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) grows along the creek that drains Pats Lake.
Grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium) are a tasty treat found throughout the Sawtooths in late summer.
Colorful shrubs start to change color in September.
The outlet of Pats Lake with the west ridge of Anderson Peak in the background.
Sunset through skeleton trees from Pats Lake.
Sunset over Pats Lake.
Scarlet paintbrush (Castilleja miniata) grows in the scar from the 1994 Rabbit Creek Fire.
Looking onto Pats Lake and the Rabbit Creek Fire scar.
The Rakers just over the top of Blacknose Mountain and Arrowhead Lake. This view is from the summit of Anderson Peak.
Southwest face of the North Raker presents an imposing granite arete.
Memorial Plaque to Arval Anderson, who surveyed the first Sawtooth National Forest map in 1927.
Looking across Azure Lake down Johnson Creek.
The island in Rock Island Lake.
Rock Island Lake from a nearby peak.
Looking across the hanging lip of Azure Lake basin onto the Pats Lake drainage.
Johnson Creek was heavily burned during the 1994 Rabbit Creek Fire.
Azure Lake.
Azure Lake.
Wildflower and fire scar.
Curved-beak lousewort (Pedicularis contorta) grows in moist mountainous habitat. Flowers grow off a reddish stalk up to 40 centimeters tall. Basal leaves are deeply toothed and are more typically white.
Cutthroat trout caught in Pats Lake.
Looking down onto Pats Lake from the trail to Arrowhead Lake.
Nice cliff jumping rock in Arrowhead Lake.
The trail from Arrowhead to the Queens River Divide.
Looking down onto Arrowhead Lake from near the Queens River Divide.
Looking across Arrowhead Lake to Anderson Peak from above the Queens River Divide.