Dinosaur NM to the Tetons

What a trip from Denver. Decided to take the road less traveled. Beautiful road (Rt 40) towards Winter Park and then on to Steam Boat Springs. Up over the pass and luckily it was not white knuckle like Logan Pass in Glacier. Walter did a good job and did not stop in the middle of the road.  Our destination was Dinosaur National Monument. It could have been a drive by site but thank goodness we stayed.   An entire building surrounding a wall 150' long of dinosaur bones sticking out of the ground. These were from big ones like Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. Discovered by a Carnegie Museum paleontologist who sent an entire skeleton back to the Burg!  We always come back to our roots.

 Dinosaur NM area

The next part of the journey was through Flaming Gorge which reminded us of Lake Powell.  Large dam with amazing canyon and beautiful blue water.  As we continued on we stopped  to see large mining operations of phosphorous.  The west is loaded with all different types of mining. Nothing else but wide open spaces.

  

Flaming Gorge

Arrived in the Tetons and got a campsite in Gros Ventre camp ground. Pronounced like grow vant. Glad we had electric power. The temp got down to the 30's and we needed heat. Decided to rain and snow in the upper elevations. We did get an 8 mile hike in to a cabin. This was the perfect hike. It  had beauty, lake, waterfall and a cabin as a destination.

Today we got to visit Susan Watts at her home here in Jackson. What a lovely setting.  We were lucky to catch her before her return to Summit   A meal of Elk was a  treat for the three of us.  This trip has been nice for us to see friends in transit.  A hotel was in order after the cold rain and low temps. Maybe we might see a movie!

Friday is a travel day to a camp near Yellowstone.  Oh, I forgot,  animal sighting of a mother moose and her two babies. They we eating sage brush right in camp.  We hope to see more action in Yellowstone.