My son and I arrived at the turn for Alpine Lake high in the Sawtooth Wilderness at the same time as a couple. We all debated: Take the short, downhill walk to Alpine Lake now, or do it on the way ...

A fire at a high mountain lake in the Sawtooth Range has shut down access to several popular trails as firefighters work to get the blaze under control. The 44-acre Alpine Lake Fire is burning east of ...

STANLEY, Idaho • It’s hard to be in Idaho long without seeing a photograph of Sawtooth Lake reflecting stately Mount Regan. “You can see it on calendars, postcards. So everybody wants to see it in ...

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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 ...

STANLEY, Idaho — My son and I arrived at the turn for Alpine Lake high in the Sawtooth Wilderness at the same time as a couple. =We all debated: Take the short, downhill walk to Alpine Lake now, or do ...

South Sawtooth Lake on Canada’s Ellsmere Island is deep, cold and filled with answers for climate-change scientists. This lake at 80 degrees north has been collecting sediment for millennia —but it ...

Residents in and near Pioneertown had a sense of deja vu as the Lake Fire continued to create smoke that engulfed the High Desert Friday. Just 10 years ago, the western-themed community was nearly ...