Join us as we do a little trail maintenance and welcome spring to the high country of the Wyoming Range leading a pack llama beyond Cliff Creek Falls, thru Cliff Creek Pass and Horse Heaven Meadows. Five days with one lay day to soak up the solitude and scenery. Enjoy carpets of wildflowers, abundant wildlife, top of the world views, and sizzling steaks. 18 miles total. Depart Cliff Creek trailhead 20 miles south of Jackson Hole.

Cliff Creek Pass

2006 Trail Crew

View From Upper Cliff Creek

Grand vistas, wildlife and solitude are the hallmarks of this 7 day trek. We will follow Little Granite Creek to a section of the Highline Trail that sees very little summer use, passing beneath Pinnacle Peak and Gros Peak before we cross the divide by Cache Peak into Flat Creek. One more pass and we arrive at the headwaters of Granite Creek. After taking a lay day to explore this high country we will follow Granite Creek to the trailhead and a well deserved soak in the hot springs.

Turquoise Lake July 4th-2006

Looking Down Granite Creek From Flat Creek-Granite Divide

Holland Family Head of Granite Creek

This 6 day loop is for the more adventuresome and revolves around Hoback Peak. Although not extremely difficult we do follow obscure and sometimes exciting trails to access the high country. Hoback Peak offers top of the world views. The mountain ranges of western Wyoming and northern Utah form a 360 degree panorama. After climbing, or just admiring Hoback Peak, we traverse the Little Greys to Cliff Creek Pass. We then follow Cliff Creek down passing the falls to the Cliff Creek Trailhead. As on all our trips to the Gros Ventre and Wyoming Range the common thread is: grand vistas, wildlife and solitue.

Tetons from Hoback Peak

Nancy and Dargo Crossing Bare Creek

Nancy, Erik, Al and Jill in the Bare Hole

This 6 day trek makes a loop through some of the most spectacular country in the Gros Ventre wilderness (or anywhere for that matter). We will lead our llamas up Shoal Creek camping by Shoal Falls the first night, then continue up Shoal Creek with a lay day near Shoal Lake (seldom fished & great fishing). Then over the pass into the head waters of the Gros Ventre River across the head of Crystal Creek and into the Swift Creek drainage. We follow Swift creek all the way down to Granite Creek with Granite Hot Springs beckoning for a good soak.

This is a moderately strenuous trip with some steep sections of trail (Forest Service rated not suitable for livestock, but with a little care, possible for our llamas). The rewards are well worth the effort on this seldom traveled route, breathtaking scenery, solitude and abundant wildlife. We will travel at a pace that will allow full enjoyment of the country we are passing through. (gasping for breath not allowed)

Darwin Peak

Shoal Lake

Sunrise Shoal Creek

Trout fishing is the main theme of this llama expedition. The variety of water we will visit on our trek through the Middle and South Forks of Boulder Creek offers great opportunities for fly fishing or spin casting no mater the level of your experience, beginner or expert. Rainbow, Brookies, Macs and Cutts populate both the lakes and streams of this scenic alpine country.

Fly Fishing - Middle Fork

Alan Crosses Bridge at North Fork

Pipestone Lake

This trek offers a tremendous variety of scenery and fishing for the distance of hiking involved. Departing the Big Sandy Trailhead we are headed to the back side of the Cirque of Towers, Shadow and Billy’s Lake where we will take a lay day. There is an opportunity for a great side hike to Texas Lake and Texas Pass, fishing in Washakie Creek, Shadow Lake and Billy’s Lake or just relaxing around camp. Then we trek to Mae’s Lake for another lay day with the opportunity for a spectacular day hike, looping past Pyramid Lake for a “shock and awe” view of Ambush Peak and dropping into the East Fork Valley and back to camp at Mae’s Lake.

Billys Lake

Washakie Creek

Dads Lake

Elkhart Park to Cook Lakes
Sept 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2010
Price: $825 per person, 12 and under ½ price

This is our favorite time of the year to be in the mountains; Labor Day has come and gone along with the mosquitoes and most everyone else. The Elk are bugling and the trout are active. We will make a 5 day semi-loop departing the Elkhart Park trailhead headed to the Cook Lakes with an overnight along the way. From there a night of alpine camping near Tommy’s and Nelson lakes, and then up and over Lester pass, hiking along gorgeous Seneca lake to our last night camp with a few more opportunities to catch Golden trout. The last day we pick up the trail where we left it at Eklund Lake and head back to Elkhart Park. Great scenery and great fishing at each camp along the way.

Tony Lewis was here

Monument Creek

View north from Lester Pass

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