[rubywrangler]

One last larch trip for the year, by the route in Matt's excellent 2010 report. The only difference was I went straight up Seance's southeast slope instead of taking the south ridge. I stepped on a shifty boulder on the summit of Seance and my camera went flying, but miraculously survived again! It was a verrrry frosty night at Bernice. I hadn't been to the Sawtooths in a couple years, love it there ~16 miles, 5500' gain

hoodoo, raven ridge

golden basin beneath seance

seance se slope

looking back

ridge to beefhide

bernice & star

descending to bernice

so much gold

beefhide

bernice

bernice reflection

bernice

bernice

bernice

leaving bernice

way trail

frosty beefhide

finney, surprise, baldy from beefhide s ridge

looking back at the route to bernice

dry lake basin

dry lake basin

star, bernice, oval, seance from beefhide summit

bernice

seance west ridge, prince creek valley, finney, surprise

finney & surprise; maude, 7fj, bonanza etc behind

beefhide's steep ne face, star/bernice/oval behind

heading southeast on sawtooth ridge

sawtooth ridge

looking back along the ridge

looking ahead to bigelow

pretty basin south of beefhide

hoodoo basin

cheops & boiling lake

bigelow

golden road to hoodoo pass

hoodoo pass view

north side of sawtooth ridge

winter is coming

[awilsondc]

So much larchy goodness!! I definitely need to head over that way for larch season one of these years. I'm glad your camera survived. Whew, close call!

[jaysway]

So, so wonderful. There's almost a sense of peace that I get from imagining myself in these beautiful larch groves. Thanks for sharing.

[Nancyann]

Oh so gorgeous, especially love the larch and frost pictures and the larch reflection shots. Thanks for braving the cold for those of us who can’t!

[geyer]

Speaking from personal experience: That place is very ugly