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| Grand Teton from Sleeping Indian Overlook, on the drive to the trailhead at String Lake |
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I wanted to choose the best possible hike for my first in
Grand Teton National Park. The Park
could close on Wednesday if congress does not approve a budget. Also Wednesday is supposed to be cloudy and
possibly rainy—not good for pictures. So
I chose the hike from String Lake to Bear Paw Lake with a longer trip back around
the west side of String Lake.
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| Grand Teton from the airport |
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a child poses
a photographer’s backdrop
Mrs. Douglas Fir smiles
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| Grand Teton from Sleeping Indian Overlook |
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| Grand Teton from String Lake |
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The child poses
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Mrs. Douglas Fir smiles
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| Along the trail to Bear Paw Lake |
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Beautiful photos! I hope you can keep going!!
ReplyDeleteThis evening it is looking like the world will continue, and not disintegrate. The Visitors Center at Grand Teton National Park still has no word on whether to block the roads and put armed guards at the trailheads, or not. What an insane government the United States has evolved into. John Muir would never have fought so hard for federal-held wilderness.
DeleteSharon, just gorgeous. Another reason to hope Congress gets a clue. Janet
ReplyDeleteI presume you are Janet Stone, though I have 3 Janets on my email list. I can assure you that congress has no clue! Our government has gone badly downhill in the last few years. I used to faver federal holding of prime wilderness lands. Now I think that is a bad idea.
DeleteNo gates or barriers or laws or rules shall hold you away from that which is inherently yours to breathe in and share with ... ALL
ReplyDeleteYes, Junnie, our government has gone sour, but that will not stop me from going to places people of my ilk have always gone.
DeleteGreat pictures! Keep on going!
ReplyDeleteLove, Muhsin
I will keep going, Mushin, in spite of the down-heading congress. I will find places that are wild even if the National Parks no longer provide them.
DeleteUnbelievable gorgeous. God's creation is beyond beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt takes my breath and gives me breath.
I want to be a butterfly perched on your shoulder watching this all with you.
And I want to steal your beautiful line and use it in some poem, "I’ll hike the backcountry as long as snow falls lightly."
As long as snow falls lightly. So let it fall lightly and let your road be blessed in snow light, pure and sacred like our wondrous world.
It is breathtaking, Susan. And it gives me the breath to walk on, even when going is tough. I like the way you want to be a butterfly on my shoulder, watching all this. Settle in little butterfly, it's raining today, but we'll see wonders there too.
DeleteAlso Susan, it is the interaction of aspen and light that gives the brilliance. Sometimes I wait a long time for clouds to move about, casting a beam of sunlight on a group of aspens. Then they turn on, the enlightened ones, while other aspen remain rather drab. These aspen do nothing to achieve their enlightened state, but one watching from afar sees that they are chosen.
Deletesuch eloquence uttered from a butterfly and her lofty Adventuress, the one who provides a shoulder's perch for the perfect view of paradise
DeletePost card perfect photos. There should be faults visible somewhere at the front of the Tetons. They forced that huge fault block up at the same time they pushed Jackson Hole downward (Jackson Hole is called a graben). The same raised fault block and sunken graben occurs at Death Valley and the Coachella Valley. But you know all that. Wish I was there. Lee Collins
ReplyDeleteThey call it the Teton Fault, Lee. It runs 40 miles along the foot of the Tetons, a vertical thrust. The Tetons were not here just 6mya, yet the rocks are among the oldest in North America. The Rockies, by contrast are 70my old.
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