Grand Teton

Grand Teton National Park borders Yellowstone. We got to our walk-in campground early, which was fortunate- it filled up by the end of the day. All the national parks are getting more and more crowded. We drove over to Jenny Lake and paid for a boat shuttle to a trailhead that took us to Hidden Falls. The hike was gorgeous. It was sprinkling off and on, which made all the colors seem more vibrant. There were no bathrooms on the far side of the lake, so Elliot got to experience “adding his own log to the forest.”

It turns out that on the very same day we were there, park rangers became aware of a big fissure in the rock above Hidden Falls. They have closed the popular spot indefinitely due to potential risk of a 100 ft chunk of rock falling down. We must have been one of the last visitors to see it. 

Waiting on the dock

Shuttling across Jenny Lake

The water was so green!

My favorite

It's a good pose

Fairy Flowers

Blissfully unaware of the 100 ft rock fissure above us

The kids were super entertained by this log slide

Look at the circumference of that bad boy!

Soup and mosquitoes and friends

The feeeeeeet! Figuring out how to keep Elliot in the tent at bedtime was a recurring challenge. We would tie the zipper closed, but he figured out how to reach his fingers out the tiny gap and untie it. It was a test of our knot skills. It didn't help that it gets dark so late up north.