Here's the card:

So one thing was to see how close I could get to this photo on the card. Answer is sort of close but the location where this photo was taken is overgrown. Additionally there are some FS lookout panos referenced as Raker Point locations but are actually taken further east on Sawtooth Mtn. I had hoped to try to replicate those panos but the ridge is too overgrown to allow that.
There have been mentions of Raker Point on OH and Limey visited Sawtooth Mtn a while back and posted a TR here:
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Just recently I think there was a Sawtooth Mtn TR but I'm too lazy to look it up. I'm not sure of any other TRs to Raker Point but if there are TRs to Raker Pt out there send me links. I'd like a second opinion.
So the plan was a loop using the old Skyline Trail segment that takes off from the FR-13 Rd and goes north before switching back to head downhill to the creek crossing. I figure this would get me closer before starting the bushwhack to Raker Pt. Then up to Raker Point and turn east to follow the ridge of Sawtooth Mtn and investigate some possible viewpoints I'd scouted in Google Earth. At some point on the ridge I'd turn down hill and close the loop by bushwhacking down from the ridge returning to my vehicle parked at the entrance of a logging road.
Turns out the (slightly overgrown) Skyline Trail segment follows an old logging road just before making the turn down slope and the road actually continues on northward for a short distance. This was good and bad, Travel on the road was easy but when it stopped I had to do a nasty b-whack to get back into the woods.
Buck Peak from the Skyline Trail

End of trail and continuation on road

End of road, bushwhack to Raker Point began up a steep brushy hillside.

After this short but intense uphill b-whack through brush of various kinds and density I was gifted with open forest for most of the way to the top. Parts are quite steep but no brush to speak of.

First thing on the talus slope on the south side of Raker Pt was to take a photo of this beargrass bloom.

First photo of Hood and Lost Lake from below the top of Raker Pt.

Some context at the same location

A closer look at Lost Lake

No rhodies handy like in the postcard so I used vine maple

On the north side of Raker Pt looking northeast-ish to Sunshine Rock and parts east

On Raker Pt

Indian Mtn from the north side of Raker Pt

Top of Raker Point

In the saddle on the decommissioned road at the likely spot where the postcard photo was taken - all overgrown now,

Looking down the decommed road before heading for a high point of Sawtooth Mtn that looked to have views. Travel was mostly easy on the road although to cool off I ducked into the woods every now and then,

From the decommed road

Starting the climb to get back on the ridge of Sawtooth Mtn using a meadow I'd seen in Google Earth to get to the top.

Looking up the meadow

Going east on the ridge of Sawtooth Mtn was mostly like this

The final viewpoint on top of a cliff facing north
Wide angle

Sunshine Rock

Chinidere

Lost Lake Butte and Hood


Looking east to the rest of Sawtooth Mtn. The rock outcrop right and slightly above center could have been a problem, I bailed before then and headed back to the FR-13 road to finish up.

Cliffs on the final viewpoint were made of this stuff:

The return was a nice steep ramble through clear partial old growth. Again, very little brush.
KMZ file of track:
Map of the day: about 5 miles, 1700' cumulative EG.
