Stanley Creek

The Stanley Basin of central Idaho is surrounded by the infamous Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness, the largest primitive wilderness area in the continental United States (@754,000 acres). This waterway flowing through the valley and aptly named “Stanley Creek” made a sinuous journey towards its namesake lake, about 6 miles downstream from here.\n
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\n\n \n \n Stanley Creek October Afternoon\n \n\nIf there's a signature logo for the farmlands in this paradise, it's the log rail fences that make perfect harmonic divisions of space across grand expanses of meadows, now illuminated in the orange/yellow colors of autumn grasses and olive green sages. The quiet here is deafening and I could hear the water running in the creek about a half mile away, far below my perch.\n