PART TWO
September 28th
– 29th Grand Teton National Park
We returned to highway 189/191 and headed for Grand Teton
National Park. On the road we passed
through the Cliff Creek Burn area that closed the highway for 4-5 days back in
July. The fire was located between
Bondurant and Hoback Junction and consumed over 34,000 acres. Burned trees and vegetation were observed as
we headed North.
We headed to Gros Ventre campground and picked out a
campsite. I asked for one close to the
river and as it turned out after hiking over ½ mile I never got to the
river. I had planned on fishing in the
Gros Ventre River both days and that didn’t happen. We saw a couple of ATC pop-up campers and met
a couple with a FWC Hawk that were a couple of campsites away. Their names were Carlo and Marta and they were
from California. They were Wander the
West members, but hadn’t been on the site for some time. We had a nice visit. They left the next day. Day one was another beautiful sunny day, so
we decided to head back into Jackson Hole and stop for lunch at the Snake River
Brewing Company. They had great beer and
food.
We then headed to Mormon Row where
we got some great photos of Grand Teton, including the famous barn photo. After Mormon Row we headed for the National
Park and drove the Jenny Lake loop drive.
The view along the lake was beautiful.
Jenny Lake
We returned to our campsite and grilled a nice dinner and sat out
looking at the stars.
The weather turned and brought rain for day two. We needed to stock up and stopped at
Albertson’s in Jackson Hole. There was a
Starbuck’s so we picked up a Mocha and Pumpkin Spice Late (we are in Heaven)
and then found some fresh Rainbow Trout to grill that night. We decided to visit the National Museum of Wildlife
Art. The displays were wonderful, large
bronzes and amazing paintings. We spent
close to 2 hours at the museum.
After
lunch, we drove up to the Gros Ventre Slide.
On June 23, 1925 the side of the mountain, from an elevation of 9,000
feet, slide down, across the Gros Ventre River and 300 feet up the other
side. Though no one was injured or
killed during the slide, the spring brought heavy rains and snow melt that
caused the temporary dam to give way and
the ensuing wall of water washed out the town of Kelly and killed 5 people.
Upon leaving we passed a field full of bison and got some
great photos. It was apparent that a storm was coming in
over the mountains.
Bison
Bull Moose
We drove to find a
place to fly fish and then the sky lit up with large bolts of lightning and
heavy rain. There went my fly fishing
for the second day in a row. We didn’t
even touch the tip of the iceberg on our visit to GTNP. We will visit again. Frank, thanks for phone call and suggestions
for GTNP. There are some hikes that we
would like to do and the boat trip across Jenny Lake looks like a fun trip and
hike.
Jenny Lake
We drove back through GTNP and took the park road north
along the lakes. There was a herd of Elk
in a field, with fog cover. We stopped
and took some photos. Next time we will
spend 2-3 days in the park as we only touched the tip of the iceberg.
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