[Westy]

Just got back from 6 days and 5 nights of backpacking through the Tetons. A lot of hard work but the most relaxing vacation I have ever had. Pictures don't do it justice.

Driving in:

Bradley lake:

Bradley lake sunset:

View from Death Canyon campsite

Climbing up to the Death Canyon Shelf

Looking up at ridgeline from Death Canyon Shelf

from death canyon cliff

One of the bears we came across. Unlike the one I nearly ran into on the trail this one was scared ****less of us. Poor fella looked a bit scrawny.

School house glacier with lake and crazy moraine wall.

view from mi casa

 

[robdamanii]

Awesome man!

How's the air at 10K feet?

 

[skinny mike]

is it just me or is there a face in the middle of this picture?

 

[Westy]

Awesome man!

How's the air at 10K feet?

Thin. Spent most of the nights above 9K. Didn't really notce any difference when moving but when sitting around doing nothing I would all of a sudden feel like I was suffocating and would need to take a few deep breaths. By the end of the trip I was acclimated. Went for a ride today and felt quite fast, good chance the altitude helped. Unfortunately I will be back to normal by the time my 18 hour race comes around next weekend.

 

[Bicyclist]

Dude, the Tetons rock.

One of my friends who has been to over 20k said the most he felt altitude sickness, period, was in the Sierras at 11k. He said the thing that matters most is allowing yourself time to get acclimated.

 

[jdcamb]

Cool stuff Cool glacial geology. Dream trip. Maybe someday....

 

[skinny mike]

One of my friends who has been to over 20k said the most he felt altitude sickness, period, was in the Sierras at 11k. He said the thing that matters most is allowing yourself time to get acclimated.

does that make me wierd if i didn't experience altitude sickness when i went out to colorado last february? i was consistently up around 10k the whole time i was there.

 

[Westy]

does that make me wierd if i didn't experience altitude sickness when i went out to colorado last february? i was consistently up around 10k the whole time i was there.

Everyone is different. Some people will feel it at 8000 some not till much higher. A few of us on the trip noticed one weird thing we coined as altitude eye. 3 of us has one eye that would constantly water for no seemingly no reason.

 

[Westy]

Cool stuff Cool glacial geology. Dream trip. Maybe someday....

It was really cool. You could see the affects of the big ice age glaciers and signs of later ones of different sizes that had moraine debris at different levels in a valley, you could kind of age them by the age/size of trees growing. Of course now most of the glaciers are little more than snow fields, yay global warming.

 

[narlus]

sweet sweet photos westy. amazing stuff.

 

[syadasti]

Here are mine from 2001 taken with a crappy disposable.

Ten weeks in the Rockies with NOLS. Grand Tetons (3 weeks hiking), Salmon River (1 week rafting, duckies, guide boating), City of Rocks (3 weeks climbing), and some Oregon/Washington river (2 weeks whitewater canoe).

 

[Westy]

Here are mine from 2001 taken with a crappy disposable.

Ten weeks in the Rockies with NOLS. Grand Tetons (3 weeks hiking), Salmon River (1 week rafting, duckies, guide boating), City of Rocks (3 weeks climbing), and some Oregon/Washington river (2 weeks whitewater canoe).

Cool. I had an invite to sail up the western coast to Desolation Sound of of Vancouver this week but my job sucks and I was not allowed to take the time off.

A few more pics I like

More of the schoolhouse glacier

The place was filthy with wildflowers

Experimenting with some panorma software. Link to w i d e image.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i285/wallingmj/teton/tetonpano.jpg

 

[partsbara]

nice westy... looks like fun...

 

[Bicyclist]

does that make me wierd if i didn't experience altitude sickness when i went out to colorado last february? i was consistently up around 10k the whole time i was there.

Nope. My point was even at 20k, if you're acclimated, you may not get as many symptoms as at 10k if you come up to that altitude quickly.

 

[MMcG]

Wow! Nice!!!!!I did my 9th grade geology report on Grand Tetons National Park.

 

[McGRP01]

a m a z i n g.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Awesome!!!

I :heart: tetons!

 

[binary visions]

Very cool. Great pictures - thanks!

 

[TreeSaw]

Awesome pics! I really like the wildflowers one too

 

[hooples3]

Looks like an awesome time!!! Glad you enjoyed it!!

 

[SkaredShtles]

Westy - those pictures are fantastic. They bring back excellent memories for me of backpacking in wild places for days/weeks/months on end.

Thanks for sharing them, man.

 

[Toshi]

nice shots!

that's one lean looking bear...

 

[Echo]

That looks like an awesome time! I wanna go.

 

[Westy]

nice shots!

that's one lean looking bear...

It looks like it was its first year away from momma bear. It probably won't survive the winter. We had dropped our packs beside the trail to walk up to a higher elevation for a better view. We saw that little guy heading towards our stuff which included food not secured inside the bear canisters so we ran at full speed to secure the packs. The little guy saw 4 people basically charging toward him and he sprinted off. Bears can run fast, he covered the same ground in a few minutes that took me half an hour.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Everyone is different. Some people will feel it at 8000 some not till much higher.

Not only is every person different, but you can go up to 10K one day and be perfectly fine and go three weeks later and get hit by AMS.

 

[Skookum]

Didn't they name them mountains after boobies? That's cool....

And stop scarin bears you mean %$#*>~@.

Not only is every person different, but you can go up to 10K one day and be perfectly fine and go three weeks later and get hit by AMS.

Air is so overrated...

 

[renorider40]

That second picture confuses the hell out of me. I have no idea whats going on or what is what.

 

[Westy]

That second picture confuses the hell out of me. I have no idea whats going on or what is what.

The picture is ust a reflection in some very still water. The rock and grass is on the shore of the lake.