Teton Road Adventure

Storm over the Tetons

We were supposed to take a float trip on the Snake River this morning, but we woke up to a thunderstorm. Instead we visited Cunningham Cabin, a homestead cabin from the 1880s. Then we took what looked like a gravel road through the nearby national forest to eventually head south. Well it's lucky my car had a navigation system because we often reached points with several alternative roads. So we followed what appeared to be the route on the map. This led us up into the foothills east of the park over high clearance roads. Because of the rain, we had several occasions where the road turned to muck and our wheels just followed the ruts. After climbing forever, we started descending finally reaching the sage brush plains. At one point, it looked like we needed to turn North to connect up with a south directed road. My mistake, I had read the park boundary as a road on our navigation system. We ended up doing a circle on these forest service roads. 

Mud Slinging on the Slick Road

We eventually found the highway and took conventional roads to Morman row, photographing the buildings and barns with the cloud filled Tetons in the background. Then up to Gros Ventre to see the 1927 slide that dammed the river to form Slide Lake. Finally we headed into Jackson for a beer at the Cowboy Bar and a Mexican dinner.

The barn along Mormon Row