On a recent backpacking trip to Sawtooth Lake, a friend and I encountered dozens of other hikers, several other backpackers and a couple of trail runners. When we got to Sawtooth Lake right around ...

The wilderness around Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, the state’s best-known mountains, is part of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The views of its many 10,000-plus-foot peaks are spectacular ...

A ski guide demonstrated the considerable avalanche risk near Galena – in the Boulder Mountains of central Idaho – by easily triggering the snowpack to run down a mountain on February 17, a day after ...

President Theodore Roosevelt first set aside the region of the Sawtooth Mountains as a Forest Reserve, and advocates for tourism wanted to draw visitors in. And as the Sawtooths gained recognition — ...

As Hannah Fobert crunched along the dirt path of the Grand Mogul trail, she carried a saw taller than she is, with long handles on either side and a guard covering a row of jagged, inch-long teeth.

BOISE, Idaho — The Sawtooth Avalanche Center has issued an avalanche warning for multiple backcountry zones in central Idaho, urging outdoor recreationists to exercise extreme caution this week as ...

Nothing quite beats the feeling of waking up to a calm, quiet, high-mountain lake, like this scene at dawn on a trip in 2021 to Sawtooth Lake in the Sawtooth Wilderness in the Sawtooth National ...

How Idaho preserved Sawtooth mountains 50 years ago In the late ’60s and early ’70s, Bill Platts’ job was to survey dozens of lakes in and around Central Idaho, examining their water quality and the ...