Back to the Tetons

Less than three weeks ago we were in the area to watch the Eclipse, but with all of the crowds and our limited schedule, we didn't have time to hike the iconic Cascade Canyon.  Well....the nice part of traveling in our motorhome is that it goes where ever we point it; and we pointed it back to the Tetons!

After driving all day from Red Fish Lake in Idaho, we arrived at Gros Ventre National Park campground.  As the Rangers always say, this campground never fills up, except maybe for a few weekends in August.  .....Well.....We arrived with one of the campground hosts signaling for us to come see him first; and we discovered that the campground was FULL!  Okay, now what to do?  All Teton NP campgrounds are full, and the Jackson KOA is full.  Last resort, Fireside Inn and Campground............they had a space.  Of course $90 instead of $14.  No choice we headed back through busy Jackson and secured a site.  At least there was a Jacuzzi (although not very hot).  The next morning we got up early, secured a campsite at Gros Ventre.

Then headed over to Jenny Lake for our many time delayed hike of Cascade Canyon.  We even got the last RV spot in the parking lot!  Caught one of the first Jenny Lake shuttle boats to the other side of the lake, and started our hike on a beautiful blue sky day.

We now understand why our RV friends did a backpack in this canyon.  Another beautiful hike with incredible views.

The next day, due to thunderstorms and being a little tired, and with company coming for the evening; we hung out and caught up on some house keeping, oops, I mean RV keeping.

Our NJ friends arrived for a wonderful meal and lots of great conversation!  When we decided to come back to the Tetons, we realized that our friends would be in the area on their vacation to Yellowstone.    So we all spent a nice evening together trading tales of our adventures.