Places Visited: Teton National Park and Jackson as seen by our son and grandson

Aug 16-22, 2007.

While in the Tetons we stayed at two of the National Park Campgrounds: Colter Bay and Gros Ventre. Both are dry camping sites and are rarely full. Both are $17 per-night to "dry camp" with central water and dump site of course if you have the "geezer-pass" the rate will be half that. There are several hundred sites in each of the campgrounds. We spent most of our time in Gros Ventre because it is located only 10-miles north of Jackson and we love Jackson and all it has to offer.

Our son Jeff and grandson Stephen flew into the Jackson airport to spend a week with us in the Tetons and Yellowstone. We spent the first day and the last day touring the Tetons with them. Their airplane arrived around 10 AM and we quickly loaded their gear in our Saturn and headed out to find some animals. Not far from the airport we turned on Antelope Flats Road and spotted some buffalo right off. Stephen was so excited. Joyce let him out of his car seat and he grabbed his camera and started taking pictures.

That is a real digital camera that he has although it does not have a large memory card. I think he exhausted the memory on that card at this sight. His dad had to delete some of the pictures so he could continue to take pictures.

This picture of the Tetons was taken near Jackson Lodge overlooking willow flats.

We spotted numerous coyotes while they were with us. Stephen wanted to see wolves so bad that we started calling these coyotes wolves.

This was a nice looking pronghorn antelope.

The colors in this picture made it worth including.

Another one of those coyotes.

I like this picture of Jeff and Stephen with that large bull moose in the background.

Stephen and his coke outside the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar on the Square in Jackson. He is my little cowboy.

Jeff and Stephen got very near this elk and her baby. Too close in my opinion, but the car was near. We saw this moose on the Wilson to Moose Junction Road.

Joyce got someone to take a picture of us at an overlook on Jenny Lake.

Stephen and his life preserver after completing our Scenic Float trip down the Snake River.

How about this nice buck jumping the fence. This looks to be an 8-point mule deer.

We enjoyed having Jeff and Stephen spend the week with us. I hope they enjoyed it half as much as we did.

Until next time remember how good life is.

Mike & Joyce Hendrix