Day 5 ( August 10, 2010)

Rock Formations in Western Wyoming 

     Well today was a challenging one. Our camera isn't working correctly with the card. We had it checked in both Lander and in Dubois and they said the card is reading as though it is empty. We aren't sure what we are going to do about it but when you are on a cartrip of a lifetime you need a good camera. We have been taking pictures on it anyway because we can see them on the camera but we are almost out of space. We are also using our phones and then bluetoothing them to the laptop which works but their pictures are not quite as clear and we can't zoom in.

  

Putting that aside, we had a great drive through more of Wyoming toward the Grand Tetons. We drove and drove and drove through beatuiful sedimentary rock formations that were almost every color you could think of...red, green, brown, even purple. I took pictures on my phone so I could show you! 

The Grand Tetons from a distance

After awile the sage and grass gave way to meadows of wildflowers and grass surrounded by pine trees. We could see the Grand Tetons as they played hide and seek with us for the next hour or so before we finally entered the park.  

     We arrived at the Grand Teton National Park (it costs $25 to get in) and then drove slowly through some road construction. They have guide cars out here that take you through the construction zones if they are longer ones. We saw a hoarde of people looking at something so we got out and saw a moose lounging on the side of a slow-moving creek. She was just laying there in the shade, chewing her cud. You could barely see her and she looked pretty bored with all of us.

     We then drove on a road that was being tarred and Tyler kept saying things like...”oh no!” and “poor car”. It was pretty stinky and messy. The good news was that we were driving around Jackson lake which is a huge lake that is nestled right at the base of the Grand Tetons. One of the most striking features of these mountains is that they just jut right up out of the surrounding meadows and forest. There are no foothills.

     This was our big night staying at the Signal Mountain Lodge cabin ! And it was beautiful! We ate an early dinner, took a walk and then went to bed. We still seem to be on Ohio time as we tend to get up at six and to bed by nine:).