Day Twenty Seven, Grand Teton National Park, WY: Open Space

On Thursday morning, I woke up early in the Shoshone National Forest, having camped out the same site outside Lander that I spent the previous night in.

I spent the day continuing the drive to Grand Teton and Yellowstone. On paper, the trip was only about two hours long. But because I pulled over so often to take pictures and hit a major construction project, it took me about four. I enjoyed the drive in any case; I said before, unlike Kansas, Wyoming has some awesome geological formations that make for a tremendous driving environment. It was very tough to choose which pictures to include.

After I arrived at Grand Teton National Park, I took a nice walk along the outside of Colter Bay, which includes one of the several Marinas along  Jackson Lake.

I spent the night in Bridger-Teton National Forest. Unlike most forests, this one does not have many dispersed camp sites, so I was forced to stay in a more developed campground. However, it was at this camp that I met Mike, a dietician from Minnesota a couple years older than me. Mike had just got back from a week-long backcountry trip through Yellowstone.

I had planned to do the Surprise Lake/Amphitheatre Lake Hike the next day, and I asked Mike if he’d like to come along – it’s always more fun hiking with someone else, especially on longer hikes. Mike was up for it.

Check out some more pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/reidksmith