10-12 August 1984
While my family was visiting, we took a whirlwind weekend trip that included not one, but two national parks: Grand Teton and Yellowstone. We based ourselves in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and spent one day in each of the parks before returning home.
This is the Grand Teton portion of the trip …
Nearly 500 miles (800 km) each way.
[scanned from postcard]
The Teton Range
(above and below)
Somewhere between Grand Teton NP and Jackson Hole.
Mui decided to play around with the camera a bit while we rested near the river.
The entire valley between the Teton and Gros Ventre mountains was named
Jackson’s Hole in 1829 by William Sublette after his partner, David E. Jackson,
who loved to trap here. The early fur hunters called any mountain-encircled
valley a “hole.” It was changed to Jackson Hole in the 1920’s for the sake of brevity.
Jackson Hole's Town Square is famous for the elk horn arches at each corner.
Don't worry, no elks were harmed in the making of the arches.
elk shed their antlers annually and the townsfolk then collect them.
One of the memorable moments of the trip was when my dad asked the clerk at the hotel in Jackson Hole to show him the room before he plunked down the cash. Common practice in Turkey to do so; not so much in the US. Though taken aback, the clerk complied with my dad’s request.
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