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Ask Me: What Are the Best Hikes in Idaho’s Sawtooths?
Hi Michael, I’m an avid reader of your blog and know that you’re very familiar with Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, so I was hoping you could give me some advice on either a good 3-day backpacking route or...
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Photo Gallery: Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness
By Michael Lanza When can you claim to know a mountain range well? How do you know? Maybe it’s once you have spent enough time—certainly measured in years, and probably decades—that you have explored...
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10 Favorite Photos From 2014 Adventures
By Michael Lanza Was 2014 a good year for you? After poring through thousands of photos I shot on more than a dozen trips this year, including return visits to iconic national parks like Yosemite and...
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One Photo, One Story: Alice Lake in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains
By Michael Lanza In the last part of June, my then-13-year-old son, Nate and I, joined by two friends, took our annual “boy trip” backpacking to one of the most lovely water bodies in Idaho’s Sawtooth...
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Tent Flap With A View: 25 Favorite Backcountry Campsites
By Michael Lanza An unforgettable campsite can define a backcountry trip. Sometimes that perfect spot where you spend a night forges the memory that remains the most vivid long after you’ve gone home....
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Jewels of the Sawtooths: Backpacking to Alice, Hell Roaring, and Imogene Lakes
By Michael Lanza We sit on the bank of Pettit Lake Creek and remove our boots and socks to ford it. It’s the third week in June, and winter is just winding down in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. The creek...
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Ask Me: Backpacking Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains
[Note: I received the following three similar inquiries from readers.] Hi Michael, Thank you for your thoughtful, inspiring and informative work! I hike and camp monthly with four girlfriends and once...
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Jewels of the Sawtooths: Backpacking to Alice, Hell Roaring, and Imogene Lakes
By Michael Lanza We sit on the bank of Pettit Lake Creek and remove our boots and socks to ford it. It’s the third week in June, and winter is just winding down in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. The creek...
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Ask Me: Backpacking Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains
[Note: I received the following three similar inquiries from readers.] Hi Michael, Thank you for your thoughtful, inspiring and informative work! I hike and camp monthly with four girlfriends and once...
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Ask Me: Dayhikes and Backpacking Trips in Idaho’s Sawtooth and White Cloud...
Hi Michael, I appreciate your generosity in offering to help with planning for our upcoming Idaho trip. We’re looking to do a few things. Primarily, we’ll be dayhiking, but we’re also planning on at...
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My Top 10 Favorite Backpacking Trips
By Michael Lanza What makes a great backpacking trip? I’ve thought about that more than a mentally stable person probably should, having done many of America’s (and the world’s) most beautiful and...
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Tent Flap With A View: 25 Favorite Backcountry Campsites
By Michael Lanza An unforgettable campsite can define a backcountry trip. Sometimes that perfect spot where you spend a night forges the memory that remains the most vivid long after you’ve gone home....
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Ask Me: What Are the Best Hikes in Idaho’s Sawtooths?
Hi Michael, I’m an avid reader of your blog and know that you’re very familiar with Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, so I was hoping you could give me some advice on either a good 3-day backpacking route or...
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Photo Gallery: 15 Favorite Backcountry Lakes
By Michael Lanza Water makes up about 60 percent of our bodies—and, I suspect, 100 percent of our hearts. We crave it not only physically, for survival, but emotionally, for spiritual rejuvenation. We...
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Photo Gallery: 25 Favorite Backcountry Campsites
By Michael Lanza Everyone has favorite campsites from unforgettable backcountry trips. I’ve been fortunate to have pitched a tent in many great backcountry campsites over more than two decades of...
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Photo Gallery: Mountain Lakes of Idaho’s Sawtooths
By Michael Lanza I’m stepping out on a limb here, but I think there are very few mountain ranges in America with as many drop-dead, gorgeous high mountain lakes as Idaho’s Sawtooths. In fact, the only...
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My 10 Most-Read Stories at The Big Outside
By Michael Lanza Which story of mine first led you to this blog? Which stories here interest you the most? (I’d really appreciate reading your answers to those questions in the comments section below...
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One Photo, One Story: Alice Lake in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains
By Michael Lanza In the last part of June, my then-13-year-old son, Nate and I, joined by two friends, took our annual “boy trip” backpacking to one of the most lovely water bodies in Idaho’s Sawtooth...
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Photo Gallery: 25 Favorite Backcountry Campsites
By Michael Lanza Everyone has favorite campsites from unforgettable backcountry trips. I’ve been fortunate to have pitched a tent in many great campsites over nearly three decades of backpacking and...
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Ask Me: The Best Long Backpacking Trip in Idaho’s Sawtooths
Hi Michael, We are a group of eight fit and active backpackers (our mountains are the High Sierra) who are interested in heading to Idaho to check out the Sawtooths next summer. I know these are some...
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