The Compulsive Hiker

This was a 3-day trip with RC (hike in to Island Lake, day-hike, hike out) and was part 2 of our 2023 Wind River trip. The planned day hike was either A) up onto the ridge south of Silas Canyon and out to the Stough Basin overlook, or B) farther up Silas Canyon to the other lakes.

Ben Adkinson’s book has a good description (#32 in 3rd edition) and the map from Beartooth Publishing can be useful. Nancy Pallister describes some portions in her “Atlantic Canyon” and “Stough Creek Basin and Silas Canyon” routes and includes maps depicting the bushwhacks involved.

My seventh trip into the Wind River Range, this one a 5-nighter accompanied by CC, RC, CE, & EE, covered some of the same ground in Bomber Basin as the 2018 trip with RC & CC. We started at the Trail Lake trail head near Dubois WY. At 7600′ elevation it’s one of the lowest trail heads so we’re in for a big climb right from the start. The initial plan was to head south on the Torrey Creek trail to the Glacier Trail junction, then up the G. T. and further south through the pass to the Dinwoody Lakes area. After that, things were fluid.

As usual, helpful resources for the trip included Nancy Pallister’s book, Ben Adkinson’s book, and the map from Beartooth Publishing.