[silly_traveler]

We spent 6 days in the Tetons and camped at spacious campsite #28 at South Jenny Lake Campground. There are 50 tent sites at this CG and they are usually full by 11am-ish. 8/26 - Surprise Lake and Amphitheater Lake - 10 miles RT This is a nice hike, but steep! The first mile is practically flat but then it goes up and up and up after that! The view is ok along the way, but the lakes are really beautiful. It is chilly up there, Amphitheater is at ~ 9700 ft.

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Surprise Lake

Surprise Lake

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Amphitheater Lake

Grand Teton National Park

cheese!

8/27 - String, Leigh, Bearpaw, and Trapper Lakes - 10 miles RT We decided to do a flat-ish hike today to give the knees some break

almost Trapper

Trapper Lake

Trapper Lake

Trapper Lake

8/28 - Hermitage Point - 10 miles lollilop This hike is also flat-ish. It goes out to an undeveloped peninsula on Jackson Lake. Really nice and scenic walk in the woods and along the lake.

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lunch spot

on the way back

8/29 - Lake Solitude via Cascade Canyon - 17 miles RT with one way boat ride This was suppose to be our rest day (no hiking) but for some reason we ended up doing this giant long hike and we didn't get started until 11:45am Cascade Canyon is incredibly scenic and the whole hike is really beautiful. A loop trip is possible here but I didn't want to kill my knees with the 4000 ft. elevation loss going up and down Paintbrush Divide We took a boat ride from Jenny Lake to get across the lake (saved us 2 miles) and started up the trail at the other end of the lake. It took us 3 hours to hike the 7.5 or so miles up to the lake and we sat around for a good 1-2 hours just enjoying the views and lunch. We got back too late to catch the boat ride back across the lake so we walked around Jenny Lake to get back to the car. We made it back just before it got completely dark at ~ 8:45pm This should be on your "must-do" list if you're visiting the Tetons

Cascade Canyon

Scot on trail

hikers on the way up

pizza lunch at Lake Solitude

Cascade Canyon

Lake Solitude

on Jenny Lake trail

8/30 - pictures day and Jackson day - maybe a couple of miles We drove around different spots outside the park to try to take some pictures of the Tetons. We went on Antelope Flats Road to get some barn shots and then down the Schwabacher Road to get some reflection shots.

Then in the afternoon we went to Jackson for groceries and a late lunch at Bubba's bbq house It was so good we came back for dinner the next night!

Bubba's bbq in Jackson

8/31 - Holmes Cave - 9 miles RT (this hike is outside the park, I think in the Bridger-Teton National Forest) Not sure how I came up with this hike out of all the hikes around the area, but it turned out to be a good one Weather started out ok but turned crappy on the way out. We got really muddy and wet!

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lake on the way

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rainbow on Holmes Cave trail

It continued to pour after the hike.... what to do we ended up going to Colter Bay to take showers and then out to Bubba's again for dinner and then some laundry at a 24 hour laundry place in Jackson. After that the rain stopped and we went back to the campsite for some sleep zzz Next up - Yellowstone and Glacier NP

[Backpacker Joe]

Great pics Silly. Looks like you had a wonderful time. Thanks.

[TrailPair]

Looks like a place we will have to put on our list.

[grateful2ski]

ah the tetons, damn i love that place, every mountain pic is poster worthy...glad to hear the weather was ok-ish, i hear that snow is already falling there. glacier and yellowstone still to come, cant wait for the TR...enjoy! yummm...pizza

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[GeoTom]

Now that you're back, Jasper wants to hike with you again. Something about banana chips

[Sabahsboy]

Thank you, S-T! I have not returned to "my spirit home" since moving from KY to WA in May, 1973. I hiked most every thing there at Teton Park...but, there are more and more trails to explore. I have soooo many stories of bing young and tramping the Park....the place we went when I was a kid was The Double Diamond Ranch, now "Climbers Ranch". The owner's built the newer structures; the dad, Nola's father, built some of the early structures with his father. The Browns ran the DDR for years and years; it has s short "stay of execution" due to the neighbor and weighty olitician, the then Senator from PA. But the Park "got it" and one last in-holding disappeared. I think the cared for use of the DDR provided far more stewardship for the land and place and allowed anyone who visited to have a lifetime of memories that turned nearly all into early Environmentalists...whatever we all were, from those of 90 years to those still in diapers. I have thousands of slides from those days. Never made it to The Grand, but got real close once or twice. Paintbrush Divide day hike is the greatest! LOve the shot along Jackson Lake shore....all silver afternoon sunlight on the water....that is one of my last memories of the place, too...a sunny May afternoon on the shore....days were low 60's; nights were way down in teens! Only time I never spent at Jackson Hole was winter...what a shame...now you have to win a Big Lotto in order to have pocket money to visit Jackson and wander the valley! Once upon a time there was a double trunk aspen near String Lake that everyone went to photograph since it framed The Cathedral Group to perfection. Aspens are short lived and I am soo happy I saw that one! Bet you can find the image somewhere on-line!

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