Shannon had arranged a Happy Hour and we got re-aquainted with Nancy & Dave, Jim and met Dave's son Justin who was here visiting from Bangkok.
Day 2 Bill and I opted to not take a 9 mile hike with Shannon for fear we might not be ready for such so we saw the small Village of Kelley which was wiped out in the early 20's by a damn that broke. As the story goes a large mud and rock slide had broke loose filling the valley floor with rock, mud and debris damning the river. A rancher near by felt uneasy and sold his home thinking the damn would break and there would be epic damage to ranchers
and the village of Kelley. No one would listen to him and for his families safety he sold the ranch and moved.
The dam broke a few years later wiping out his ranch and many others while doing significant damage to Kelley.
We then saw the field of debris created by the landslide, mangled trees, boulders and such that looked like truck after truck might have dumped at the site.
We drove to Mormon row where some of the 1st settlers settled at the Tetons, saw herds of free roaming Buffalo and Pronghorn err
Afterwards we drove toward the town of Jackson to find a geocache, to continue of streak of at least one cache a day. Walked around a bit while downtown and then decided it was time for a little lunch.
After eating we drove west out the Teton Pass Hwy toward Idaho where we picked up another 5 or 6 caches in the town of Victor, ID. The drive was nice and the road was a climb with great views ofJackson Hole, WY.
On the way back we drove threw Teton Village and we happened to catch a Moose roaming close to the Hwy.
It wasn't till today that we got an awesome sight of Moose with a nice rack right outside our
campsite.
Today we will drive over to Jenny Lake where Shannon is working to check the lake out.
Hiked around Jenny Lake saw some awesome falls, awesome views from Inspiration
point. Even got to see a very large Moose.
We drove up toward Yellowstone today in hope of seeing additional wildlife and on our
return we had a huge black bear cross right in front of the car, unfortunately he was quicker
than the shutter closed on the camera, we did get a nice road picture.
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