9th Sept - Yellow Stone Nat. Park (YNP) - Day 2
Day 2 of our trip to YNP - we decided we would do the Grand Teton Nat. Park (GTNP). What was supposed to be have been not a long drive turned out a wee bit longer when you have a wayward Bison ambling down the road.
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The top speed at YNP is 45mph but most of the time you are travelling at bet. 35/25mph due to animal spotting and the stopping by the numerous homo sapiens.
Blush colours of autumn just beginning to show at YNP.
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More bisons..at this time of the year, they are better looking as they are growing their winter coats. We came in summer 2012 and they looked a terrible straggly lot with bits of fur hanging off them like a badly home knit wool jumper that's unravelled.
Midway Geyser Basin - lots of geysers spouting away like uncontrolled boiling kettles.
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Lewis Falls - a mere 30ft high...but still just as lovely.
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A beautiful 20deg. C/68F day but still a bite to the wind. Overnight temp. was -1deg.C/30F - we were told to disconnect and drain the hose to the RV due to the freezing temp.
If one is game, it is a fairly easy walk down to the water.
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Our first view of the Teton Range....wow! We are back in Wyoming again.
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The Grand Teton is the highest mountain on the Teton Range. It is believed that the name is attributed to early 19th century French speaking trappers - les troi tetons-okay, no laughing please, (the three teats).
This deer was out having a bite just as we were leaving the restaurant at Colter Bay. We lunched at the CBV Ranch House, it had a fairly good lunch menu - most of the other places we stopped along the way in search of lunch, were mainly convenience stores or offered mainly burgers/sandwiches. Very generous portions -I had the Pulled BBQ Pork and there was enough pork to feed a family of 6 Chinese. Speaking of which...lots of Chinese tourists around.
Due to the type of foliage at the GTNP, we saw more autumnal colours.
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Do stop at the Jackson Lake Dam and Reservoir because this is where you will see the Teton Range at its best. The Teton Range is a sub range of the Rockies and lies totally in the Snake River basin in Wyoming.
I will not insult the Grand Teton/Teton Range by using the ubiquitous word "awesome" to describe it. It deserves far better superlatives such as magnificent, awe inspiring, stunning. Standing at 13,770 feet, it is visually imposing rising above Jackson Lake. Just love how the mountains are reflected in the lake waters.
Spillway at Jackson Lake Dam.
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What a perfect place for picnics.
Unusual rock formations are left behind as the weather sculpts and moulds the landscape at the GTNP.
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