Grand Teton

                   Yosemite has El Capitan.

                   Yellowstone has Old Faithful.

                   Mt. Rushmore has the Guys.

                   And Grand Teton has, well, the Tetons.

                             And are they ever Grand!

          This is another example of even though you may have never been here, I’m sure that you have seen photos of this National Park and its Grand subjects……. The very impressive Teton Range in northwest Wyoming.

                   You may recall that we tried in vain to get here last year on our way back East in the Spring. Unfortunately for us, Winter has a nasty habit of holding on to this region for as long as she can and even though baseballs had been flying for weeks, the roads and the Park were still grounded. At least for our purposes. These Parks are open 24/7/365, but many areas of a Park may be shut down because of inaccessibility.

                   So, as the saying goes… There’s always next year!

          And here we are, only for a day or so, but unless you are taking advantage of their two hundred miles of hiking trails, or even scaling the 13,775 foot tall Grand Teton, a day is about all you need to roam this Park. And that is not taking anything away from it! Everything here is absolutely gorgeous and accessible.

                   Obviously the draw is the peaks of Teton Range themselves and they are visible from everywhere!

                   This Range is one of the youngest on the planet and is the youngest in the States. (They are roughly 10 million years old compared to the Rockies at about 65 million years or the Appalachians at a whopping  300 million years!) They grow out of a small fault and are only forty miles long. The surrounding area is about as flat as it gets until Bam! up pops these incredible mountains looking like that random mountain range that springs up out of the plywood base of your toy train layout!

          That means that practically wherever you go here, you can see the main reason for visiting this Park. It also means that the view of the Mountains changes with every turn in the road, which makes photo -taking a bit of a challenge and I’m glad that I’m using a digital format cuz in the Olden Days, rolls and rolls of film would have needed to be processed at the end of the trip! I obviously will not include every photo taken during our stay here! You will need to visit yourself and discover the nuances of the ever-changing views of the Grand Tetons!