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September 6, 2014<\/h2>\n

As has been standard operating procedure on this trip, I was up early, had breakfast at the motel, and got a sandwich to carry for lunch. I fueled up and was on the road, Idaho route 33, by seven. The first notable terrain feature is the sight of the Grand Tetons from the west side, near Driggs. The range as a whole looks like a giant set of teeth, and one of them looks like a giant shark\u2019s fin. I probably should have stopped and tried to get a picture, but I was looking pretty much directly into the sun so I didn\u2019t figure I\u2019d get one to come out.<\/p>\n

ID 33 continues south from Driggs before turning southeast to the foot of Teton pass. Now in Wyoming, the route is designated WY 22, but it\u2019s the same road. This is easily the steepest pass of my trip, and one of the steepest passes I\u2019ve ever crossed. It\u2019s a 10% grade both sides, with many hairpin turns. At the foot of the pass on the eastern side, we cross the Snake River, circle East Gros Ventre Butte, rejoin our old friend US 26 and wind through Jackson, Wyoming.<\/p>\n

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Rolling north towards the park, Jackson Hole Airport is on the left. I missed the Fed\u2019s Economic Policy Symposium at Jackson by a couple weeks, but there\u2019s no shortage of expensive hardware operating here. A sleek Gulfstream was landing as I drove past.<\/p>\n

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After entering the park (and crossing the Snake again), I stopped at the visitor center. I had been asking for hiking recommendations for some time. One suggestion was Phelps Lake, but I ended up deciding on starting at String Lake and going north past Leigh Lake and Bearpaw Lake to Trapper Lake. I found an idle ranger standing by a large map.<\/p>\n

“Any reports of bear activity on the trail to Trapper Lake?”<\/p>\n

“I’ve never seen a bear there.”<\/p>\n

“Do you suppose I’ll be able to find somebody to hike with at the trailhead?”<\/p>\n

“Who knows? Take your bear spray, make lots of noise, sing. If you’re a bad singer, all the better.”<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t very helpful. He\u2019s never seen a bear there, but is that never on three hikes or never on thirty hikes? As it turns out, that’s a very heavily travelled trail. I don’t think I went 5 minutes without seeing other hikers, and that was before the trail got crowded. By the time I headed back to the car it was pretty much a conga-line hike.<\/p>\n

The weather was gorgeous \u2013 a clear, cloudless day, calm and not too warm. The trail runs south to north along the shores of String Lake and Leigh Lake, so there\u2019s no vertical component to speak of. I did take one of the trails that head up the valleys to the west hoping to get to an overlook but turned around before long without success. As I got toward the northern end of Leigh Lake I decided to go no further. The views were going from awesome to somewhat less awesome the farther north I went.<\/p>\n

The sky was still cloudless but I set up the GoPro anyway. An occasional wisp would form over Mt. St. John and Grand Teton, but they disappeared very quickly. I hung out on the beach here for forty minutes or so, ate my lunch (the sandwich squashed, now resembling flatbread) and watched the boaters and kayakers on the lake.<\/p>\n

My original plan was to hang out here most of the day, then head to a motel in Riverton for an easy day\u2019s drive home tomorrow. Sitting on the beach I started pondering my options. If I left by two, I could probably be home by midnight. Or, I could drive through Yellowstone and see the sights. Having lounged by Leigh Lake for a sufficient time, I headed back toward the car.<\/p>\n

Back near the parking lot, where there\u2019s a nice view to the southwest, cloud action had improved over Grand Teton. I decided to sit there for another spell and got both cameras running. Here the trail was about fifteen feet from the shore of String Lake. The SLR clicking off a shot every two seconds caught the attention of most passersby, so I chatted with quite a few hikers. One was a wildlife photographer who had recently retired. We discussed 500mm lenses and I explained my process for shooting time lapse.<\/p>\n

Several mentioned that the road to Old Faithful is closed and the traffic in Yellowstone is very bad. I mentally crossed off one of my options. I was wearing my Broncos cap, so another topic of conversation with folks was football. A Seahawks fan gave me grief, and a 49ers fan vowed that the Seahawks wouldn\u2019t win their division. Even with letting the cameras run a good, long time I ended up back at the car a few minutes after two. Having eliminated Yellowstone as an option, I headed toward Riverton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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