The Grand Teton

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July 26th 2014

Published: August 4th 2014

To celebrate my 30th birthday, my sister convinced me to do "something big." After a few months of procrastination, we (Chris, Danielle and myself) decided around Christmas of 2013 to climb the Grand Teton on my birthday weekend. Climbing to an elevation of 13,775 was going to take some work for all of us, not only because of our lack of mountain climbing experience, but also due to the differen... Read Full Entry

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Exum Ridge

Scoping out the Upper Exum Ridge. At this point we still dont know which route we will take up, but we were approved for the more advanced Exum route. Secretly, I was hoping for the easier Owen-Spaulding Route, but glad we left it up to Hound Dog.

Another ho-hum landscape...

You could look in any direction and be in awe. Magnificent.

Idaho Sunset

Beautiful sunset on the Idaho side of the range. What else happens on the Idaho side? that is where the toilet is.

Sunrise

You can see the shadow of the Grand as the sun comes up over the Teton Range.

Up Up and Away

Making our bid for the summit on the Upper Exum Ridge.

BAM!

We did it! We reached the summit! With 60 degree temps and 5-10 mph winds, it was the best weather our guide had seen in over 20 years of making this trip.

Survey Marker

The marker says 13,775; WikiPedia and everything else out there says the peak is 13,770. Im going to go ahead and take credit for climbing that extra 5 feet.

ooooooh

ahhhhh

Time for the descent

Chris leads the way down this huge rappel.

Rappel

Quite the cliff face to come down. Look close, you will spot a Doctor.

Dr Adventure?

Zoom in a bit and you can see Danielle walking her way down the mountain. Rappelling was personally my favorite part of the trek, as it somewhat felt like flying.

Mission Accomplished

Not only did we make it up the mountain, we made it all the way down! Thankfully our support team had a cooler ready to greet us in the parking lot.

6th August 2014

MargAndRob
Marg and Rob Humphrey

The Grand Teto
I loved your photos and story. Well done.

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