The Tetons & Yellowstone Park

On the road to the Tetons -- look hard. They're in the background.



Oh. My. God.


A view from the Colter's Landing Marina


Left to right: Middle Teton, Grand Teton, Mt. Owen, from the Marina


Close up of Grand Teton



Still there the next day as we head to Yellowstone.


The Snake River with the Tetons in the far background.


The South Entrance to the Park. The guy in the blue car took 20 minutes to pay.


The first of many beautiful waterfalls and gorges.


Female elk. The males don't socialize. Our first wild animals in the park. Note the many dead pine trees. The mountain pine beetle is deforesting much of our most beautiful land.


Male buffalo, also a solitary type.


Females crossing the road! Check out the dog in the car ahead of us.



Is that RV trying to sneak ahead? That's a no-no.


The women are very social, obviously. Lots of little babies in this picture.


Coyote crossing the road, calmly, and in broad daylight.



The approach to Old Faithful. It erupts every ninety minutes. In the interim, it blows steam. As it gets ready to erupt, the steam gets denser and bigger.



Cameras ready?


The first eruption of water in the middle of the steam. 3:06 p.m. precisely.



At its peak. Right in the middle of the picture. It's 90 feet high. Measure against the trees in the background. The ground is covered with hardened minerals from below.



I've learned since not to turn the camera when I take a movie.



The anticlimax. Cigarette, anyone?



Well of course we hit the gift shop!



There are over 300 geysers in Yellowstone. Here I am at the approach to one of the best groups of gushers. The steam in the background is the water flowing into the river. Way hot meets icy cold. Check out the colors in this next group of shots.















Leaving the park. This is the way it should all be.


This is the way it is in a lot of the park. Sad.