The photo shows the Grand Teton (left), Mt. Moran (center), and Eagles Rest Peak (right), looking southward across Jackson Lake. I took this photo on a long-ago visit to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park about twenty years ago in early-mid June of 1990.It was almost two years after the Yellowstone fire of 1988 (cached page, current page not working as I write this; also see Wikipedia: Yellowstone fires of 1988). We planned to come back the next summer, in 1991, and stay at Jenny Lake Lodge, although we never did.
That's me, in the middle of a hike up Cascade Canyon. The peak is Mt. Owen. I have very few pictures and zero slides from our Yellowstone - Grand Teton expedition, so these will have to suffice.
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Who needs slides when the images are all in your head anyway? I notice often these days that I see too much of my life through the lens and not taking time to enjoy...
The funny thing is, though, I go back to places I used to go just so I can take pictures of them, supposedly so I can use them in my posts and in the stories I write about those days.
Good Golly! Has it been almost 20 years since 1990? I guess so. I had just moved to SoCal, and was starting to take the geology classes at my local community college. (Talk about some amazing field trips...)
I would love to repeat some of my trips, also, to have photos that I could post and write about. I haven't tried scanning some of my slides with my home kit yet. Maybe sometime in he near future...
I love the Tetons - they are one of my favourite national parks. And Jenny Lake is a gem. Grand Teton always seems to suffer/benefit from having the more popular Yellowstone up the road. Very few visitors.
I often think this visit was made in 1989, one year after the fires, so I was thinking it was exactly 20 years when I first posted. It was 1990, however, and I know that because we planned to come back the next year - and couldn't. Everything changed in December, 1990. I have a few other pics, but not many.
Jenny Lake is a very neat, fairly small lake. We stayed at Jackson Lake Lodge while there; Jenny Lake Lodge was booked - kind of just dropped in, didn't have plans or resos.
The wildflowers were stunning that year...
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