Grand Teton National Park

Arriving in Teton from Rocky Mountain meant driving for quite a while with the Tetons in the distance – that was a nice view.

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The first day we went down to the little tourist town south of Grand Teton National Park called Jackson to hang out. It is a nice little place with everything moose you can imagine. I guess you can imagine that we didn’t buy much 😉 . On the way back to the campground we tried to stop to take some pictures from the Snake River Overlook. There was still too much light to really get a decent picture, but I think we got a reasonable shot anyway (the one above).

The second day we took the inner road to Jenny Lake, and the south part of the road. Grand Teton NP has got probably the most impressive visitor center I’ve seen in any National Park so far. At Jenny Lake we wanted to have rented a canoe, but since Felix was not five years old they would not let us have one.

The third day we wanted to hike from Jenny Lake to Lake Solitude and hoped to maybe see a moose, a hike of 16 miles (26km). The hike starts with a shuttle boat ride over the lake to the trailhead and the “Captain” told us that up in the canyon there was a moose that liked to hang out there, so we’re now hoping even more to see one. Felix walked the first mile or so, which was mostly uphill, alone, but afterwards he was happy enough to be in the carrier. We looked for the moose in the canyon, but we didn’t see any – but I think we saw one of the most beautiful alpine valleys we’ve seen so far on the way up there. When we came to the end of the canyon we met a woman who asked if we had seen a moose on the way up – sorry, no. She told that just a bit up the trail was one .. so you can guess we hurried a bit. Right there, in front of us, was a big male moose wandering around – not caring at all about the humans around it. After some time it crossed the river and wandered on.

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Now we had seen the moose the alpine lake didn’t seem so attractive anymore (plus, it was another 3 miles up the road) and we decided that we could just as well could go down again ;-). We hiked a bit down canyon and we actually got to see the resident moose cow just hanging around in the bushes by the river. They are so big, but when they don’t move, you won’t see them. By the time we were down we were glad we had cut the hike short, because there was a thunderstorm moving in and we speed-hiked the last two miles around the lake in order to make it home dry. We were sitting on the porch of the General Store eating ice cream when it started to pour for good. The hike was 11 miles (18km) long.

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