Tuesday, August 25, 2009

August 13th Day two in Grand Teton National Park

I didn't have a good night and was feeling pretty ill in the morning so Leon let me sleep in. It took me quite a while to feel good enough to want to go out exploring so we didn't get going until well after 1:00pm. We decided to take it easy and just do the loop road and it's scenic pull outs and boy was the scenery ever breathtaking! The mountains rise up from nearly flat land so there isn't anything to obstruct the view of the range except the trees along the way. As we traveled the road we stopped at the Jenny Lake, Moose and Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve visitor centers so I could get my NP Passport stamps (this is an addicting hobby for sure). In the Laurance S. Rockefeller area we took a walk and experienced a bit of rain and wicked high winds so we decided to make a run for it in the hope of getting back to our truck before the skies opened up. As we began to drive out of LSR the skies cleared and the wind died down. We were laughing about this sudden change in the weather when I spied a small critter running down the road. It was a pine martin! He stayed on the road for about 200 yards, at times turning to see if we were still following him. Finally he had enough of us and he jumped into the woods. I was very excited to have seen him! We traveled the loop road back to Colter Bay Village where our campground was located and as it wasn't too late in the afternoon we stopped at the tavern there for a drink and appetizer before heading back to camp for a light dinner. We hit the sack around 9:00pm because we wanted to get an early start the next morning as we were on a quest to locate the bison herd that is maintained within Grand Teton NP.

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