Baker Lake
Baker Lake is a solitary lake in the Smoky Mountains of Idaho. The Smokies are at the south end of the Sawtooth-White Clouds area.

I had come from Boise Sunday late PM, overnighted near the Norton Lakes TH, and after doing the Norton Lakes Loop, moved over to the Baker TH and did an in-and-out here.
This trail is completely in a burn area (very little of Idaho ISN'T in a burn area), and therefore you are in the sun 100% of the time, and this is a fairly daunting hike as well.
And as should be obvious, I had the goats with me, and since this is a fairly well-traveled trail, I was stopping and talking on a pretty regular basis. Most folks are interested in the goats,
to the detriment of my forward progress. :-)

Life always returns after the destruction of the fire	The reward for the perspiration that this hike produced
One of the 'old soldiers' that has taken up residence in the lake	And another... one with a pretty interesting root pattern as well