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When I approached Justin and ICL: the Idaho Wilderness Trail. I already had a name for this new footpath Third-largest and the biggest outside Alaska. Wildernesses were contained within one national park, it would be America’s The small town of Stanley) and two remote dirt roads. Vast realm of mountains and canyons divided by just one rural highway (ID 21 outside Places comprise nearly four million acres of almost-contiguous wilderness, a Mountain range for its jagged peaks and hundreds of alpine lakes. The Wilderness Act of 1964, and now Idaho’s best-known and most beloved Protected as a primitive area since 1937, among the first places protected in Of No Return Wilderness (aka “the Frank”), largest in the Lower 48 and bigger Many national parks, including Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Glacier the nearly My son, Nate, and two friends backpacking to Cramer Divide in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains.ġ.3-million acre Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, which by itself is larger than I told him that Idaho deserves to haveĪ long-distance backpacking trail that traverses its three signature federal wildernessĪreas. Good friend, Justin Hayes, then the program director of the Idaho Conservation Idaho, this trail has, metaphorically speaking, come a long way from a notion in And thanks to the help of some conservation leaders in Of the highest points along the most remote and wild long-distance trail in the There’s more to this pass than the view: We also happen to be standing at one
Meadows and past alpine tarns to proudly reach a mountain pass at over 9,000įeet on the Cramer Divide, overlooking a turbulent sea of razor peaks stretching A few hours later, ourīackpacking party of three parents and six teenagers hikes across wildflower Of the forest and jagged peaks surrounding the lakes. They lie perfectly still they are glassy mirrors offering inverted, sharp reflections Lakes on either side of our campsite had been rippled by mountain breezes, now Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, have transformed overnight. Morning to discover that the waters of the upper and middle Cramer Lakes, in We emerge from our tents on a mild August