Sawtooth Traverse

So Jennifer and I are moving to Denver in the middle of May and I want to do one last epic in Idaho. The trip will be roughly 40 miles of backpacking through the Sawtooth Range in very early season conditions. Early season conditions because I am thinking of doing the trip starting on the 19th of May, also because as I write this there are about 80 inches of snow on average throughout the central Idaho mountains. Unless there is drastic warm up the majority of that snow will still be there in mid May.

The route:I have come up with two different routes, they basically follow the same path, but one has some added adventure to it.
Option 1 would start out in Grandjean and end up at Petit Lake, passing Sawtooth Lake, Baron Lakes, Cramer Lakes, Toxaway Lake and Alice Lake. If you have Google Earth I can email you a more detailed route description.

Option 2 would follow the same basic path, but would involve some off trail hiking, summiting Baron Peak, Snowyside Peak and El Capitan. These three peaks are fairly untechnical in their climbing and can all be reached via Class Three terrian; though the difficulty is likely to be greater with snow on them. Of course walking on hard snow is much easier than scrambling around on loose talus. Again I can email a more detailed route description of this route too; I couldn't get the Google Earth route player to load onto the blog.
These routes can change as well through peoples preferences and other inputs.
Here is a recommended gear list

So let me know if you want to come and which route you would be up for!