46er Peak Sawteeth Mtn (10)

For Father's Day, my dad, son Derek, brother Rick, and I set out to hike Sawteeth mountain. We arrived at the Lower Ausable parking lot after dropping off Derek and Dad at the beginning of the road. We were at the gate (trailhead) at 6:41 am and were off on our hike. I picked this hike for Fathers day because my father and brother had never done a high peak, so I figured this would be a fairly easy one, in that you start out with a long walk before climbing, this was nice for me also because it gave us time to slowly warm-up.

We arrived at the lower Ausable lake at 8:50 am, had a drink and shed some clothes, and continued on. When we arrived at the waterfall I was amazed, this was a very relaxing and beautiful site, and I could have taken a nap here.

We were about halfway up from the lake when I turned around and looked down at my Dad and brother, both completely out of breath; and Derek and I were hardly breathing hard, and my dad said "gees, you guys aren't even huffing", Derek and I looked at each other and at the same time asked if he wanted us to slow down.

We arrived at the junction with the trail to Sawteeth and the other to Pyramid at 11:30 am, I thought we were making good time, and I also again thought this would be a nice place to pitch a tent; it was a nice place with nice views. We took some pictures and had a few sips of water and continued our final push to Sawteeth. The summit of Sawteeth was reached at 12:30 pm; we all enjoyed our rest, had lunch, and took many pictures. There was another man at the peak that took a picture of all of us, this we framed and have in our family room in the house.

We arrived back at the trailhead at 4:52 pm and were out of woods, it was a beautiful day.