Big Tits!

Sorry guys, no naked pictures of Tracy, I'm refering to the Grand Tetons.

I'm at the library in Jackson (as in Jackson Hole for you ski buffs) right now. Jackson Hole refer's to the valley (or hole) first settled by a guy named Jackson. It is one great place. I thought I'd found "the place" until I checked out real estate prices. The Bay Area is actually cheap compared to Jackson Hole. It's one of those communities like Aspen where a few million is the minimum entry price.

For those who haven't been here (I remember Kalim got to go here for an all CAL during college) Jackson Hole is a big flat valley with the Grand Tetons jutting straight up on the side... very, very, steep, dramatic and beautiful. The town of Jackson has all you could want: theatre, movies, music, good hospital and library, lots of great restaurants, etc. and great hiking, biking, skiing, kayaking, rafting, fishing, and beautiful scenery surrounds you everywhere. Unfortunately others figured this out long ago and there is no such thing as a home under $1 million.

We went on two great hikes here.

The first was around Jenny lake, to the falls, then up to inspiration point for a view of the lake, valley and surrounding mountains, then up cascade canyon. As you can tell from the picture, it had snowed the day before. Grand Teton is right there, I mean right there as in goes straight up thousands of feet about a football field length from the trail. During the summer you probably get to see mountain climbers scaling the Tetons while you are on this hike. This has to be one of the most beautiful of all the hikes we have been on. A definate A+.


The second hike we made a loop around the north side of Two Oceans Lake up to another inspiration point (popular name around here) then around the southern end of Maggy Lake and back to the car at Two Oceans. 13+ miles and 800+ ft elevation gain total yesterday so today we decided to take a down day.

We are doing chores, including this blog, today and probably dinner and a movie tonight (the Friday night date night tradition is still going strong for us). Hope everyone is doing well. We haven't decided wether to head down the western side of the rockies and Utah next or the eastern side and Colorado or spend one more week north checking out Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, etc. I'm thinking of skipping Rushmore (it's notheast a couple hundred miles) and instead dropping down into Fort Collins, Colorado. Probably time to start heading south. Also I just got the message that Dave is getting married on the 22nd (lots of notice, Dave) so I'm going to try and get a flight out of Denver or Salt Lake or somewhere; hope to see some of you there.