Grand Tetons

June 16, 2006
River Camp to Grand Tetons Climbers Ranch, WY 264 mi

Yellowstone National Park
What can I say – Amazing – Buffalo, elk, bear, bears having sex, geysers, fumaroles, hot springs, mud pots, twisty curvy roads.





I would say it is the best National park in the country. Meet a couple from New Zealland touring America on motorcycles with our visas. They are climbers without gear looking for American climber to hook up with.

Grand Tetons Climbers Ranch
Go back to the Climbers Ranch and get a bunk. It is great to be back. The people here are all so friendly.

I go into Jackson Hole for applewood, fire roasted pizza and a “Old Stinky” beer at the Snake River Brewery. At the bar the waitress talks smack to me so I give it right back to her, then she talks smack to a local girl next to me. End up talking to Jamie, she has live in Jackson Hole for five years, moved there to climb, hike, snowboard and snowshoe (her favorite). But what she really loves is Sea Kayaking. She had done some 10 day trips. Well I blew her out of the water with my story of my solo kayak trip of the Inside Passage. But she got me back, when she was 19 she went and lived in La Perez, Oaxaca for a year. Back at the climbers ranch I was tempted to sleep outside because the stars were so incredible.