May 19, 2008:
Here we are standing in front of the Wildflower Inn. Its a couple miles south of Teton Village. This picture was taken about 3 minutes after I finished taking 20 moose pictures from the front yard (see previous blog). It turned out to be another fine day in Jackson Hole.
The frozen, but thawing, lake pictures are from Jenny Lake. There's so much snow that we couldn't do the Hidden Falls hike I'd been planning all winter. But we did have a great couple of hours walking in the sun and hanging around the lake and Cottonwood Creek.
Back on the bike and up to Jackson Lake, over the dam and about 1 mile further north. The road runs directdly along the lake with a huge turnout. It's no wonder. This is the place most of the pictures of the Tetons reflecting on Jackson Lake are taken. And I had to get my own pictures. The water was perfectly still, but there is still a lot of ice. So the pictures aren't perfect. But there were no crowds anywhere so I think we won on that.
The Signal Mountain restaurant just south of this turnout and the dam turned out to be our best meal of the trip. We only had lunch but the quality was terrific and the choices were unexpected. We sat by the windows looking over the lake and off to the Tetons. Very pleasant. Then another hour walking along the gravel strewn beach in the shadow of the mountains.
Did I mention the Tetons are completely snow covered? Take a look at the pictures above.
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