Grand Teton National Park 10,11,12 June

We spent three nights at Jackson Hole while we explored the wonderful Grand Teton National Park. We wished we had allowed a week there.

  

The foyer of our hotel in Jackson Hole. The lights are made of male elk antlers which they shed in winter.

 

 

Off to explore. That's the Teton Range in the background. The Grand Teton National Park is named after The Grand Teton, the tallest mountain, which is 13,775 feet. The naming of the mountains is attributed to early 19th century French speaking trappers, who called them LesTrois Tetons (The Three Teats) which was later anglicised and shortened to The Tetons.

 

 

You can see why!

 

 

All the National Pakrs in America have entry gates like this one. They collect the fees and pass out excellent information.

 

 

Bill amongst the sagebrush and wild flowers.

 

 

Where you see a crowd pulled up near the road in these parks, you quickly grab your camera and join them.

 

 

On this occasion we saw a moose with her two babies.

 

 

We took a boat across Jenny Lake to do two trails on the other side.

 

 

Approaching the far side.

 

 

Our destination was up hill to Inspiration Point. We crossed a couple of pretty streams on the way up.

 

A marmot enjoys the hikers.

 

 

Almost there. The trail was beautiful.

 

 

Lovely vistas over Jenny Lake from Inspiration Point.

 

 

 

Heading down again.

 

 

Back to the shores of Jenny Lake, then off on our second trail to Hidden Falls.

 

 

First thing we did was cross the bridge over Cascade Creek, with the creek raging below.

 

 

It was a pretty walk from there, following up the creek.

 

 

We passed a lot of bags like this with "dropped by helicopter" written on them. They are put there to repair the damage done to the trail, bridges etc, after the snow melts.

 

 

Here we are at Hidden Falls.

 

 

 

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