The Tetons

The Beautiful Tetons

This is the second leg of our camping trip. We drove down from the north end to the south. We stopped by the beautiful lakes and the marinas, ran around the visitor centers and explored all the native american artifacts.

This is the Cathedral Group of mountains. It is so magnificant! I took a picture of the signs as well that described the fault lines. Even with minor earthquakes the mountains keep growing and the valley drops, often times 20 feet at a time.

We took a little ferry boat cruise across Jenny Lake. This was the high light of the Tetons for me. Jack loved looking at the boats propellers and running on the little trails. We got to Jenny Lake around 5:00 p.m. and took the twenty minute boat ride out. Then we hiked around for 30 minutes before catching the last ferry back.

Driving in the car. Jack decided he was so bored he had to eat his toes. You can also see just how full the car was.

This is a new visitor center in the Tetons, it was really neat. Jack could touch the animals and their fur, they also had screens on the floor that looked like you were walking through rivers or up on top of the mountains, very cool. They had a whole section about the first mountaineering and skiing done on top of the tetons, it was so cool to see all the old equipment they used.

There was a little chapel that was called the Sacred Heart. Jack rang the bell to start mass:) the main window that is just past the alter has this gorgeous view!

We were also able to see the original ferry that helped people cross the snake river. We weren't able to ride across though since we were there in the morning and rides didn't start until 3pm.

On our way home we stopped by Jackson Hole. This was a great disappointment to Stephen, since it looks just like Park City (he wasn't aware of that). But we did find a great maze amusement park. We wanted to let Jack run before getting on our long drive home, so we went for it. We only lost Jack once when he crawled under the walls, but the rest of the time we ran around and got tired really well:)