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Moose and Squirrel!
... see them. We headed off to the visitor center to get information and advice on what to do, and learned that there were wildfires in Idaho and the smoke had been obscuring the mountains for a couple weeks. So much for the awesome, in-your-face typical Tetons views!
But the weather was nice anyway, and we took a boat ride across Lake Jenny and hiked to Hidden ...
D17: Marston Pass and Traversing Snow in August
... found ourselves next to a small, clear lake. It struck me as pretty amazing that such a lake could exist at 11,000 feet with no obvious feeder creek. In any case, it just looked really nice as it sat serenely at the foot of countless peaks.
We proceeded through the saddle onto a trail that sent us due south towards Marston Pass. The view was astonishing. Snowpacks dotted the multitude of mountains in our view as spots dot a leopard. We had a view ...
D16: The Longest Day
... task is made much tougher when you know that you have to get to a certain place, but can't readily tell from the maps a safe place to get there. You just have to survey the current surroundings and make the best decision possible.
Twice while making our way down to the river, we had to go down very steep but passable terrain, walking down sideways to minimize the chance of falling. There was little trepidation among the group, but falling would have ...
D15: Over the Mountain and Through the Saddle
... a place one would equate with The Sound of Music or any meadow you might imagine existing in Switzerland. It was the perfect combination of blue sky, snowpack, a clear rushing river, fresh green grass, and wildflowers whose colors spanned the entire palette. As we sat down to eat our lunch, we even saw a group of 3 elk prancing away on the snowpack above. They clearly were none too happy to witness our arrival, but I was especially enthralled with the ...
D14: Scouting a Mountain Pass
... for a way in which the entire group could cross the mountain on the next day. At one point Annemarie and Nan continued on their own as the going got fairly steep. This left me and Jamie to marvel at the sight of the valley we had just walked through over the past 2 days. It was extremely neat to see the valley end abruptly at a forest (we were camping right before the forest), and have the ground rise up with ever greater slope to meet us at small ...
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