Sawteeth Mtn.

Father’s day, today my dad, son Derek, brother Rick, and I set out to hike Sawteeth.We arrived at the Lower Ausable parking lot after dropping off Derek and Dad at the beginning of the road. We were at the trail head at 6:41am 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 8:50am, had a drink and shed some cloths and continued on. When we arrived at the water fall 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 we hardly breathing, and my dad said “gees, you guess 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 Gothic’s at 11:30am, 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 to Sawteeth.The summit of Sawteeth was reached at 12:30pm; we all enjoyed our rest, had lunch and took many pictures. There was another man at peak that took a picture of all of us, this we framed and have in our family room in the house.We arrived at the trail head at 4:52pm and were out of woods, it was a beautiful day.