Teton Scenes

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.

The Grand, Gunsight Notch, Mt. Owen...the perennial snowfields
still perennial, Teton Glacier still there

Something new to us...OTC oxygen...seemed maybe to help me... 

Also new to us: rental bear spray from a vending
machine

Among the wildflowers

Enjoying ice cream at the Jenny Lake visitor area

Helpful model...

Looking across Jenny Lake to Symmetry Spire and Mt. St. John,
both of which I climbed in 70s

The view from our campsite at Jenny Lake

Also from our campsite, Teewinot, most of which we climbed together
in 1972; and which I soloed a few years later

Mt. St. John's, Rockchuck Peak...

Indian Paintbrush

On an excursion out to the Lupine Meadows parking lot, looking
for the unmarked trail that begins the climb of Teewinot

In 1972, we got about as far as the high notch, but then turned back...
all recounted here

On the trail to Teewinot, 2025

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

Campsite visitor

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

Cathedral Group

Cabins at Jenny Lake Lodge were $1102 per night--still out of our
price range

But we though we'd have lunch there anyway; undistinguished
and disappointing...

But we did finally get to camp again at Jenny Lake