It's now Monday morning and I'm sitting at home in front of a real computer. I've gone through the blog and hopefully have added pictures. I'll quickly go over the last couple of days of our camping trip.

Thursday, the 20th, we played tourist: saw all the things one should see around Old Faithful. When we arrived at the area, Old Faithful was actually just beginning to erupt:

Sawmill Geyser:

Castle Geyser on right and Old Faithful on left:

Grand Geyser:

And other geothermal phenomenons:

After spending all day doing this it began to feel like "if you've seen one geothermal event, you've seen a hundred." So we bade Yellowstone a found farewell and headed to the Tetons to see how things would be there. In a word it was SMOKEY. We thought it was bad in Yellowstone, but the Tetons were twice as bad. We did find a nice camp spot in Colter Bay. As we were checking in the ranger said that one of the campers had seen a bear walk through their camp site an hour before. I'm glad we sleep in the Beast!

Friday morning we headed over to Jackson Lake Lodge to get a cup of coffee and look across the Willow Flats to the Tetons. It was so hazy you could barely see that there even were mountains there. It's so disappointing; normally the Tetons are awe-inspiring. But, we decided to go for a hike anyway - one that didn't rely on the views to be great. We went to Lupine Meadows trailhead where folks climbing the Grand start out. We didn't take that route, instead went to Bradley Lake - a 6 mile round trip hike. It was nice, but the air just felt thick with the smoke. We did get some nice views of the Tetons:

 But, decided it was time to head south and get out of the smoke.

We ended camping at a National Forest camp spot somewhere between Jackson Hole and Salt Lake. It was a nice spot - lots of camping places but very few campers. We talked with a couple of the other folks there and they, too, had left the Tetons due to the haze.

Here's our last night camping:

To sum it up, we had a wonderful trip, saw amazing things, did great hikes, had fabulous meals and the Beast did well. Plus, I had the best companion imaginable to do it all with. Steve, after two weeks, 1800 driving miles and 80+ hiking miles, thanks for another trip-of-a-lifetime.