From 1970 on, the Tetons have been one of our happy places, and we spent nearly a week there in later July, the best part being able to stay most of that time at the Jenny Lake campground...something we'd not been able to do since the mid-70s, when a storm and slide destroyed much of it. The campground was subsequently rebuilt but has not permitted anything but small vehicles and tent camping since then. Our new mini-van rig allowed us in. The blog probably contains hundreds of pix from the Tetons, both pre- and post-retirement for us (just enter "Tetons" in the search box), but we can't resist adding a few more.
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The Grand, Gunsight Notch, Mt. Owen...the perennial snowfields still perennial, Teton Glacier still there |
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Something new to us...OTC oxygen...seemed maybe to help me... |
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Also new to us: rental bear spray from a vending machine |
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Among the wildflowers |
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Enjoying ice cream at the Jenny Lake visitor area |
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Helpful model... |
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Looking across Jenny Lake to Symmetry Spire and Mt. St. John, both of which I climbed in 70s |
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The view from our campsite at Jenny Lake |
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Also from our campsite, Teewinot, most of which we climbed together in 1972; and which I soloed a few years later |
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Mt. St. John's, Rockchuck Peak... |
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Indian Paintbrush |
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On an excursion out to the Lupine Meadows parking lot, looking for the unmarked trail that begins the climb of Teewinot |
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In 1972, we got about as far as the high notch, but then turned back... all recounted here |
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On the trail to Teewinot, 2025 |
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The crowds in the Tetons were pretty overwhelming; here, people are parked along the highway half a mile either side of the entrance to the Jenny Lake parking lots, which fill early in the morning; same thing at various day-hike lots; Lake Solitude has been renamed Lake Multitude |
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Campsite visitor |
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Nearly every day rangers or wildlife management people stopped by to tell us there was a bear in some campsite or other; but we never saw one |
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Cathedral Group |
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Cabins at Jenny Lake Lodge were $1102 per night--still out of our price range |
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But we though we'd have lunch there anyway; undistinguished and disappointing... |
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But we did finally get to camp again at Jenny Lake |