Another Walk In The Sawtooths – chossclimbers

Another Walk In The Sawtooths

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Sawtooths — In camp.

First, we could not believe that it’s been seven years since we’ve last visited the Sawooths (that was with our sweet Blondie girl back in 2012). Second, this was another one of those take-your-climbing-gear for a nice multi-day backpacking trip. We did not even reach our objective but the trip was quite fun nonetheless, especially for Benny who loves water. A mixture of mountain river fords and some swamp bushwhacking really agreed with him. We’ll probably go back to try again. Oh and somebody really showed us how much he can carry in his backpack.

Photos

Sawtooths — Benny’s contribution (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Steady Benny, steady (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Assisting big Benny (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Fording (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Drying off (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — A ford early on the hike (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Trail dog (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Buddies (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Cross country (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Good boy (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Charging up the trail on day 1 (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Union break (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Somewhere along the hike on day one (July 2019).

Sawtooths — More sights (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Views along the hike on day one (July 2019).

Sawtooths — In camp (July 2019).

Sawtooths — This is how Benny spends his nights when in the tent with us. I sleep like a slow baby on roofies with the big boy on guard duty (July 2019).

Sawtooths — The start of the cross country swamp bashing (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — We thought that somebody would enjoy this sort of an approach and sure enough…

Sawtooths — Swamps interrupted by channels (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Helping Benny across a river (we could cross via the log on the left; July 2019).

Sawtooths — This one (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Wet bushwhacking (July 2019).

Sawtooths — At least Benny was loving it (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Out of the swamps (look at that sad face; July 2019).

Sawtooths — Cross country uphill slog (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Benny did not mind carrying an extra heavy backpack…barely noticed it I think (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — After we bailed on the climb, we had to re-cross the swamps. Here we took our time for someone to enjoy like waterhole and river (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Benny and I crossing the river again (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Come on man, throw the stick again!

Sawtooths — Laps in a river. Too cold for us but just right for big Benito (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Beauty of the Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Sawtooths (July 2019).

Sawtooths — The hills are alive…

Sawtooths — …never mind (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Almost back to the trail (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Raging (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Our second camp (July 2019).

Sawtooths — Chilling in our second camp (July 2019).

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