Day 40, Sunday, August 26, 2012, Signal Mountain Lodge to Jackson, WY.
Last day and it was a good one. Beginning with great views of the Tetons and ending with Mr. Moose. We explored Signal Mountain Road to find Moose and the best I could do is the picture below. A reddish flash at the other end of the lake.
Mr. Fox in the foreground.
Signal Mountain Road was off course. An out and back with a pleasant climb and subsequent descent to return to the main road. We had lots of views of the Tetons as seen below. The first pictures I took of the mountains were done because I did not know there would be the pull outs to view them and were shot by the side of the road.
A distant and mighty cathedral looms.
A chimney plug on a young mountain.
A glacier came down the cut between the peaks to form Jenny Lake.
We pulled into the Jenny Lake Lodge area to get a snack. Then I led the way onto the bike path linking Jenny Lake with Moose and Jackson. A great way to end our ride.
Antelope seen from the bike trail.
Using the zoom on my Canon camera is still a challenge.
At Moose we crossed the Snake River and then took a left on the bike trail to go for food at Denaro's (I'm not sure I have the name correct). We ate at the chuck wagon style restaurant. Decent heavy weight food. As the four of us (Herb, Bob, Jay and I) were sitting there finishing up our meal, Frank came up to us grinning like a mad man. He saw one! What did you see, Frank? A moose right back under the bridge crossing the Snake. If we hurry we may get a chance to see him, too. We jumped on our bikes and sped off to see the moose.
What Moose? I don't see no stinkin' Moose.
Whoa, look, it's a Moose!! Cool!
Stripping Willow leaves off the branches. And the trees don't seem overly damaged by his foraging.
Bye, Mr. Moose. We have to go to Jackson now.
After seeing the Moose we went back to tell Geno, Frank and Mike we were heading for Jackson and we would see them at the downtown square. The ride into Jackson on the bike trail became a race with the weather as their was a mean looking thunder storm off to the west. We got caught, but it was a very light, sparse, rain, primarily because the center of the storm was a ways off and going in a more northerly direction. It was sunny in Jackson.
The end of a long 40 days and 40 nights plus a few extra days and nights.
Here comes Mike! Bob in the background with a latte in hand.
And here's Frank.
And in rolls Geno.
Left to right: Jay, Herb, Frank, Geno, Bob, Dennis, and Mike.
After Geno, Mike, and Frank caught up with us and we had the group shots taken above we set off for The Virginian Lodge which was on the other end of town.
Stats were lost in the ether.
