Linger Outdoors

Iron Bog Well, it's my turn again to write our trip experience. July 17th and 18th we headed over to Antelope Creek, to try hiking into Iron Bog Lake. How to get there: drive to Arco, follow highway 93 North, to Moore, then take a left heading in a southwest direction for several miles, vague I know, forgot to set the odometer 😊.  You'll pass by Iron bog campground right before the road forks. Continue on trail 40220 Left Fork Iron Bog for about 3 miles to the parking lot of the trailhead, I would recommend a high clearance four-wheel drive as the road is rough getting there. Once at the trailhead there are two options: Trail 4065 or trail 4067. Take trail 4065, as the other takes you over to Hurst Canyon.  We arrived at about 10:00 am, a little late, but still early to beat the afternoon heat. So we took off up the trail. This trail climbs up fairly quickly,  about 1250 ft elevation to reach Iron Bog Lake. The kids were having a blast, and Lyssa loved the hike- jamming out to

  It is said that bad things come in threes.  This may be true for backpacking for us over the July 4 th weekend. We had grand plans of heading to Divide Lake near Dubois Idaho in the Medicine Lodge area for 3 days/2 nights. I had a paper to finish so we got a late start hitting the trail after 1 pm. It had been a beautiful sunny morning but as we drove farther into the hills the clouds looked like they could produce a bit of rain.  4th of July Divide Lake We didn’t make it very far and it started to rain.   We had some rain gear and continued on up the trail.  It is 6 miles from the trailhead to the Lake. Although the rain was falling from the sky the creek had no water.  We had some water in our packs but for the most part, had hoped to rely on our filtration system to get water.   I am usually the optimist or the delusional one in our marriage. I was hoping that just around the next bend that a small spring would pop up and we would have water. The rain let up and low and behold a