Zone 36B is a smaller carve-out of the Sawtooth-area country, focused on the eastern Sawtooth fringe and the Stanley Basin's east side. Elevations run from about 6,500 feet on the valley floor to over 10,500 feet on the higher peaks. The valley is sage and willow-lined creek bottoms; the mountain slopes carry lodgepole, doug fir, and subalpine fir, with whitebark pine and alpine meadows above 9,500 feet. The Sawtooth Wilderness boundary cuts through the western edge, locking up the high cirque country to motorized access. Sawtooth National Forest and Sawtooth National Recreation Area cover the bulk of the unit. Highway 75 runs the spine through Stanley; forest roads off it are limited and seasonal. Stanley is the gateway, but with a year-round population under 100 the services are minimal—gas, a couple restaurants, basic lodging. Ketchum is two hours south and has everything. Cell service exists weakly in Stanley. The Stanley Basin regularly records some of the coldest temperatures in the lower 48, and that's not an exaggeration—you can hit minus-30 at night in October. The high country hunts are alpine: glass big basins, watch for mule deer using mahogany-aspen transitions, and pack out before snow locks the access roads. Elk numbers are modest; mule deer is the more reliable target.