Well now that summer is here in full force, here's a little winter stoke...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Shadow Mountain
Headed up to Shadow Mountain last night to camp. Set up camp pretty late, but the morning views were amazing as always. Directly across the valley from the Tetons.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Yellowstone National Park
Mel and I wanted to go to Yellowstone on Tuesday. We were getting ready for bed Monday night and trying to decide what time to leave in the morning. 9:00? No. 8:00? No. 7:00? How early should we go? Well... we could leave now!
After some debate and calling our friend Niels, we decided to go for it. We departed Jackson at about 2am. Goal: Breakfast in Montana.
It takes about an hour to get from Jackson, through Grand Teton National Park, and to the South Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Driving at night on empty roads was actually pretty cool, although there were lots of elk along the way. Our route is in red on the Yellowstone map below, up on the left, down on the right.
We reached Old Faithful a little after 4am. It was pretty dark, but slowly getting lighter for the 5:40 sunrise. We could see the ridgeline in the distance and steam riding. We were hoping to see Old Faithful erupt, but we were unsure on timing. Apparently it erupts around the range of every 90 minutes or so.
We were in Gardiner, Montana by about 6:15, where we found a breakfast buffet. Not ideal, but we were a little early for most of the restaurants.
Coming back we took the Eastern route, which was very scenic. Or maybe I should say, it was a little easier to see what was around us in the daylight. The Canyon was pretty incredible. We saw deer, elk, antelope, bison, and a grizzly bear. The one animal that we were really hoping to see were wolves. Maybe next time.
We arrived back in Jackson around 2pm Tuesday. It was a solid 12 hour trip. After biking the village and an impromptu trip to the hospital for Mel to get stitches, I was awake for about 38 hours. I survived waking up for work today pretty well. It's too bad that the average person spends about a third of their life sleeping... that's a lot of time for adventuring.
After some debate and calling our friend Niels, we decided to go for it. We departed Jackson at about 2am. Goal: Breakfast in Montana.
It takes about an hour to get from Jackson, through Grand Teton National Park, and to the South Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Driving at night on empty roads was actually pretty cool, although there were lots of elk along the way. Our route is in red on the Yellowstone map below, up on the left, down on the right.
We reached Old Faithful a little after 4am. It was pretty dark, but slowly getting lighter for the 5:40 sunrise. We could see the ridgeline in the distance and steam riding. We were hoping to see Old Faithful erupt, but we were unsure on timing. Apparently it erupts around the range of every 90 minutes or so.
We were in Gardiner, Montana by about 6:15, where we found a breakfast buffet. Not ideal, but we were a little early for most of the restaurants.
Coming back we took the Eastern route, which was very scenic. Or maybe I should say, it was a little easier to see what was around us in the daylight. The Canyon was pretty incredible. We saw deer, elk, antelope, bison, and a grizzly bear. The one animal that we were really hoping to see were wolves. Maybe next time.
We arrived back in Jackson around 2pm Tuesday. It was a solid 12 hour trip. After biking the village and an impromptu trip to the hospital for Mel to get stitches, I was awake for about 38 hours. I survived waking up for work today pretty well. It's too bad that the average person spends about a third of their life sleeping... that's a lot of time for adventuring.
Bikes!
The Jackson Hole bike park opened last weekend. Still a work in progress, but it's slowly improving. Should be a fun summer.
Did a little photo shoot in the afternoon. Photo courtesy of JHMR/Julie Weinberger.
Did a little photo shoot in the afternoon. Photo courtesy of JHMR/Julie Weinberger.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Dirt and Snow - The Best of Both Seasons.
I was pretty set on being done with playing on snow for the season, but the roomates convinced me otherwise. We took the tram up and hiked out to Four Pines. We made it most of the way down before having to hike out. In the afternoon, I went on a solo downhill ride on Parallel. You can't do that every day...
Friday, June 3, 2011
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