Ciera jumping into Bench Lake, at the rock where the kids played and swam all day. The water was cool, but not frigid like most alpine lakes. 2003, Ciera age 11.
Bob, Erin Lindorfer, and Jim Shaver, hiking out from Bench Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, 2003. The Lindorfers and Gruvers were on this hike.
The reflection of the mountainside in Mars Lake, a small lake in the White Cloud Mountains of Idaho.
TBS and Ciera having breakfast in the morning sun, at our secret lake in the White Cloud Mountains. We hiked in with the Smiths, August 2003
Tuckie, Jim, Tuckie, Everett Smith, and Bob at camp at an unnamed lake above Washington Lake. We named it Mars lake because we saw a very close pass of the planet Mars, in a star filled sky that night. 2003, Jim 6, Ciera 11.
This is the group that hiked to Kane Lake in Bob's BSU backpacking class, fall 2003.
Kane Lake in the Pioneers, on Bob's BSU trip there, fall of 2003. The cliff above the lake is home to a family of mountain goats.
Tuckie and Jim at Kane Lake, Pioneer Mountains of Idaho, fall of 2004. Good fishing, incredible views, mountain goats, this lake has it all.
Jim Shaver with a nice trout he caught at a high lake in the Pioneer Range of Idaho. We caught a lot of fish there, and saw a family of mountain goats on the rocks above the lake.
Everett Smith catching a fish at Kane Lake in the Pioneers in Idaho. Our dog Ginger is very interested in that fish.
Marc Dilley and the rest of the crew of the first Ptarmigan Traverse for me and Marc. I did the PT twice more after this trip. This was in 1972.
Tuckie on the only scary part of the mountaineers route in to Sheep Lake in the Seven Devils of Idaho. 1994.
A view of the traffic jam of climbers above the Hogsback, on Mt. Hood. Some were coming down, some were going up. 1991.