Under two miles on maintained trail with 270 feet of climbing, to 37 acres of brook trout water at 8,981 feet. The easiest lake in the Sky Top drainage by a long way.

The one lake on this bench that costs you something: a steep 200 foot drop to the water and the same 200 feet back out. Yellowstone cutthroat at 10,394 feet.

Five acres at 10,453 feet on the open bench, three tenths of a mile southwest of Kookoo and far easier to reach. Yellowstone cutthroat.

Four acres at 10,594 feet, the highest and most northern of the bench lakes. Half a mile west-northwest of Triangle across open rock.

Twenty three acres at 10,594 feet, five times the size of anything else on the bench and the only brook trout water in the basin.

The last lakes on maintained trail in this basin, ten and a half miles up the West Fork canyon. Yellowstone cutthroat in both.

The best basecamp in the West Fork drainage, with every lake in the upper basin inside a mile and a half. Whitetail Couloir climbs straight out of it.

Nine miles up the West Fork on maintained trail, right at the footbridge below Sundance Pass. The junction where the upper basin opens up.

Six hours to cover 2.8 miles from Silver Lake, through deadfall and brush, on a trail that exists on maps and nowhere else. Come at it from above instead.

Seventeen acres of cutthroat at 9,194 feet, the best camp in the upper drainage, with an old grill at the site and trail the whole way up.

Eight miles in on trail to the best basecamp in West Rosebud. Six lakes within three miles, rainbow trout you can cast to from camp.

Five and a half miles in, with three of them walking the length of Mystic Lake. A hundred and seventy acres of rainbow trout at the head of the valley.