I’m so happy my mom came on the trip. I think it was great for her and we all enjoyed having her with us. We did a speed drive to Salt Lake City to get her on an airplane. We are going to miss you mom.
The original plan was to leave this morning but after the snowy weather yesterday and the bluebird day today we decided to push it. We woke up early this morning. My mom‘s flight was at 8pm so with the 5 hour drive to Salt Lake City we wanted to be in the car leaving by 1pm 1:30pm the absolute latest. Which also meant our turn around time from the canyon was around 11am.
It was essentially just a speed drive through down to Salt Lake. We drove from Wyoming to Idaho back to Wyoming down into Utah.
Utah. State number 6.
didn’t get to explore, but will be back. hey Fobes do you know there is Bridget everything down here? 😜after a needed nap by all, canasta playing until we arrived at the airport. i played with mom. the girls kicked our butt
What a beautiful day!! An amazing day actually! The forecast said it would be clear today and it was. We woke up early because we wanted to get in a hike today before we drove my mom to the airport. It was a blissful 23 degrees when we woke up to watch the sunrise over the Grand Tetons. Not a cloud in the sky. Days like this is why you are here. On our drive to Jenny Lake we saw another male standoff, this time between 2 bull elk and their harem. The one bull elk with 15 just bugled and the other elk’s 5 females went over to the larger male.
The kids were not happy to be getting up early to go for a walk, especially since it was pretty cold outside…but we could not pass up this day. It was a an amazing bluebird day. The boat rides across Jenny Lake closed last week because of weather so it added on an extra 3 miles, which I was a bit nervous about at first since my mom was with us. Our goal was to hike into Cascade Canyon, right at the base of Grand Teton and Teewinot. Along the way we hiked to hidden falls and inspiration point. I’m so happy we did not do this hike yesterday as intended because I bet we would’ve turned around 1/2 mile in since it was snowing, but to not have done it would have been a sincere bummer.
We were up and out on the trail early. We were the first ones in the parking lot. The weather was still brisk but the sun felt so good. It was beautiful walking around Jenny lake through all the aspens. Everything about the hike was great. The crankiness of the morning wore off by mile 2, we found hidden falls because the trail led straight there (not so hidden falls :)), were “inspired” at inspiration point, and made it up to the canyon, and there was not a cloud in the sky the whole time. My mom did great. So happy we stayed for today. I love it here.
good morning skythe Teton mountain rangeecosystem knowledge bitjust to recap: 1: the earth spread and thinned out and created the Teton fault. 2: earthquakes created the mountain range (the west plate rose to create the mountains, the east plate went under the west plate to create the valley floor 3: glaciers came and carved the mountains and canyons between the mountains to see what we see todaythe brass 3D topo map was iced over. yes this is how cold it felt in the morningour goal: walk around Jenny Lake to Hidden Falls, Inspiration Point and make into Cascade Canyon at the foot of Grand Teton mom trekking alongthe cool thing about snowy trails, you can see the animal tracks easier; coyotehidden fallsle petit Grand Tetonafter ALL of our cold water clean river mountain hikes we FINALLY remembered to put our water purifying strawmmm…cold and delicious the Warner 4lunch at inspiration point. we were INSPIRED!national forest employees working in trail maintenance. they hike in each day carrying in a tile saw.we made it into Cascade Canyon but not very far in. the alarm went off for turn around time to head back down to get my mom to the airport for her plane that left from Salt Lake Cityreal life Truffala Tree 🙂 it looks similar as to what grows in Glacier commonly known as “hippie hair”back at the bottom by Jenny Lake. It finally warmed up and I was about 5 seconds from jumping in but we really had to get a move on to catch my moms plane
