I drove down to Driggs ID today to register for the Horseshoe Canyon 10k trail race on Sept 19. The drive down was amazing. I was in the Teton valley which is west of the Teton mountain range. The views of the peaks were amazing and the road was fun to drive. It finally warmed up and I headed back to West Yellowstone to go and ride in Yellowstone. I don't know why but I was a little apprehensive about going into the park on a bike. Might be all the really big creatures that call Yellowstone home. I did see [View Full Entry]

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We have had marginal phone and internet service for six weeks. I guess that's the price we pay for the mountain views. We checked in to an RV Resort very close to Glacier National Park. We met up with friends Sandy and Bruce who travel in their 42' Holiday Rambler. The panorama view of glacier-topped mountains is too breath-taking to describe. First day we hiked through the park to Avalanche Lake. The hike had a 500 ft. elevation, starting at 7,000 ft. We found that hiking 4 miles at this elevation was a real wake-up call. Need more oxygen. The next [View Full Entry]

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I didn't think my trip could improve, but it keep getting better every day. I left Jackson and drove up to the Grand Teton National Park. The weather has been unbelievable so far. There was hardly a cloud in the sky and it was an amazing day to be in the park. The setting of being in the valley and looking up at these huge mountains gives you perspective of just how tiny we really are. I stopped and did most of the main sights in the park. I would love to spend more time hiking and exploring in this park. [View Full Entry]

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History & Heat Yesterday we had a leisurely morning and left West Yellowstone for a van tour of the area west of the park. There was only one other couple in the 8-passenger van, which was nice. Laurie was our guide. He's lived in the area for many years, hiking, hunting and fishing all over, including in the high country. He showed us the area affected by the huge earthquake of 1959, which created a lake, caused a 20 foot shift in the shoreline, and caused 49 people to lose their lives. If we'd just driven by it, we'd have [View Full Entry]

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This entry actually covers 8-23-09, and after reading it, hopefully you'll see why we were too tired to do it last night. 4 the number of states we were in yesterday: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada; 2 the number of scenic river valley we drove along: Logan & Snake Rivers; 4 lakes: Bear, Lewis, Jackson, and Yellowstone; 2 National Parks: Grand Teton and Yellowstone; 1 spectacular mountain range.......of course, the Grand Tetons; 2 number of cities in Wyoming with elk antler arches: Afton and Jack [View Full Entry]

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When I spend a day somewhere like Yellowstone, I have to wonder how ANYONE can question that there is a god. That place is amazing! I never imagined what it would be like. There aren't enough pictures in the world to make anyone really grasp the beauty that it Yellowstone, but I sure tried!! We left Idaho Falls yesterday morning, as early as we could, but not insanely early, and headed to Yellowstone. We stopped in the town of West Yellowstone and rented the neatest thing!It was a GPS tour guide! For a one day trip in the park, it [View Full Entry]

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1st June, 2009 West Yellowstone, Montana. Not to busy today, bit of shopping etc. Spent a bit of time at the Grizzly and Wolf Center, a great place, watched two of the movies, one on the Grizzly Bear. The Grizzly is a funny creature, most people think he is a meat eater when in fact the opposite is true, don't get me wrong they do eat meat but it only makes up about 20% of their diet, they eat animals caught up in the winter freeze (deceased) and the newly born calves / fawns, and are quite happy to fight the [View Full Entry]

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31st May, 2009 Travel to West Yellowstone, Montana. On the move again today, said goodbye to Jackson (which we can recommend to any traveller), and headed up SH 26, through Alpine, across the border into Idaho and up through Rexburg, Ashton, across another border and into the State of Montana, arriving here at West Yellowstone around 2pm. As it implies West Yellowstone is a small town on the Western edge of the Yellowstone Park, nice place. We are at the Grizzly RV park, which is just 4 blocks from the Yellowstone entrance, it has 191 sites, all with full hook ups, [View Full Entry]

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HEADED OUT OF GLACIAL, -- THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARK, THE BRIDGING PARK, BETWEEN CANADA AND AMERICA. AND THEN THROUGH A LITTLE MORE OF THE GLORIOUS ROCKIES AND SCENERY THAT KEEPS YOU THINKING, ---------THAT YOU’VE ALREADY ARRIVED IN HEAVEN! MONTANA IS KNOWN FOR IT’S BLUE, BLUE SKIES, IT’S OLD GROWTH FORESTS, AND MOUNTAIN RANGES THAT JUST GO ON FOREVER AND EVER, NO IPOD MUSIC FOR US TODAY, JUST THE GOOD OL LOCAL COUNTRY AND WESTERN STATION, IT MADE THE DAY,- THE LYRICS ARE SO CORNY, BUT RIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRYSIDE, WITH VALLEYS OF WILD HORSES AND THEIR FOALS, WHITE FENCED RA [View Full Entry]

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It was the turn of Old Faithful geyser at the Upper Geyser Basin to entertain and amaze us today. But it was her sister geysers that had us captivated. We arrived at the Wall Mart sized parking lot just 30 minutes before Old Faithful was scheduled to erupt and found a front row seat among 300 eager geyser gazers. Old Faithful was a little late but nobody cared as the weather was clear blue sky and 20 deg C. Unfortunately the breeze was blowing steam towards us so the water spray was hidden. However we saw its next eruption from the [View Full Entry]

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