So proud of this family today! They crushed our Tetons goal hike climbing almost 3000 feet vertical on an 11 mile trail. A bit longer than it should have been because of a parking area full of people doing less ambitious hikes. The Jenny Lake hike was a great buildup for this one. Spectacular views […]
We have a few hikes planned in Canada that are many more miles than we are accustomed to, so we are trying to go on increasingly longer hikes now. Today we packed up our camelbacks and headed to Jenny Lake after attending a morning ranger talk at Jackson Lake Lodge. The talk was more of
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Our first full day in Grand Teton National Park was started with a two hour ride through miles of park land via horseback. This was a Christmas present from Chris’s parents that we have been anxiously awaiting for 6 months! The other couple that was scheduled for our tour did not show up, so the
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Note 📝: Half of this post has been translated from the fish language. The large fish swam toward the big, red, large, thing in the water. This was rather common, every once in a while a red thing was pushed into the water. The fish swam a little closer to the blurry, gill-less not fish.
We are going to visit Cody, Wyoming again, and for a while I was excited that I would get to see Mr. Brad’s son Justin, but then I found out that he would have to leave to see his mom in Ohio before we arrived. Then we got an invitation to come with them to
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If you have been keeping track, you will notice that we are retracing many of our stops 20 years ago on our first cross country. Chris loves Lander, WY so of course we had to stop here again. We both remember visiting a ghost town during that trip and I bought a quilt from a
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Devil’s Tower is the first national monument. It’s also Dad’s favorite monument . Personally I don’t understand why, to me it just looks like a tall stone tower, but to each their own. Devil’s Tower (know by the Native Americans as Bear Lodge) is also the tallest thing we have seen on our trip. It
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We have spent the past two days exploring our corner of Wyoming around our base of Douglas. Yesterday we headed to Ft Laramie and the town of Guernsey. We packed a picnic lunch for Ft Laramie and enjoyed their picnic area before heading into the actual fort. While walking to the Visitor’s Center we were
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This week we visited another bone 🦴 site, “yay”. This one was mostly mammoths 🦣 and not Woolly mammoths, well there were two Woolly mammoths but Colombian mammoths were the most common there. Colombian mammoths are the biggest type of mammoth that they’ve found there. The reason that all the mammoths were there was because
Yesterday we arrived at what I have always felt was the real gateway to a Western adventure, sorry St. Louis. Devils Tower, a unique 800+ foot tall natural rock tower, was made 50 million years ago from magma filling up the void of a volcano and slowly cooling. The extremely slow cooling cycle caused huge
