back home

Sitting on the bed writing the final post. 

After Jackson Wyoming, Lisa and I headed over the Teton Pass into Idaho for a little big hole riding. This was what I loved about the area. You drive for 10 minutes in any direction, get on your bike for 20 and before you know it you are way out in the country. We did a ride the next day where we ran across a group of Peruvian sheep dogs that were moving the sheep up the valley. 

View from the pass

plaid never really goes out of style

We spent a couple more days checking out the area but in the end it was time to pack it up and head to Yellowstone. Luckily the drive was not without scenery again.

hey!

A waterfall

and Elk!

Yellowstone once again was awesome. We ended up camping the night in the park and heading out fairly early to try and see as much as possible. Yellowstone is enormous. And beautiful. 

Old Faithful, Geysers, Bison, Waterfalls, Hot Springs. If you ever get the opportunity to visit Yellowstone, go. 

That evening after a long day of sightseeing, we ended up in Chico Montana. Chico is a half horse town that has one feature. A hot spring. We ended up lounging at the pool for the rest of the evening. It was pretty nice. 

Next morning we awoke fairly cool. I informed Lisa that if we pulled an all day drive, we could be home. She voted yes so off we went on the final voyage. 

FYI - Yellowstone to Vancouver is about 16 hours via VW Van. 

This concludes Mac and Lisa's summer vacation of 2012

Welcome back to Jackson

As I signed off the last post we saw this in the distance. Cool. Lets go see that. If we were 30 minutes later we would have fully missed this. It is called Chimney Rock and we ended up camping underneath it that night. What a stroke of luck to wake up to this awesome piece of nature.

look close you just see a spire in the distance.

During the drive Lisa learned a bit about the elusive Jackalope and it was total luck that we came across a life size jackalope for a picture. 

We are back in Jackson for the next few days. This area is so pretty it was a shame not to take Lisa back to it. We finally made it through 'the suck' (midwest corn states) and came into Jackson via Casper on Hwy 26.
Because
This took us up through the Tetons. The Tetons are amazing.

The view definitely doesn't suck.

We arrived back into town in the afternoon and had an invitation from Wendell, the local area trailbuilder to stay at his place. Before we hit his place we did a short laundromat run. Everything into one big load.. and now everything is blotchy because the last load had bleach in it that didn't get rinsed out correctly. Great.

We crashed at Wendell's that evening. It is getting cold! Temps are now dropping to 1 degree and then daily highs back to 28. The next morning we did a 20 mile single track ride up in the forest behind Wendell and Rachel's place. Pretty cool area that you can just ride behind his house and have this terrain available to you.


Lisa and I did a little sightseeing in town that day and she wanted her picture under the dead animal hair.
We feasted that night.

Today we are heading up the Teton Pass to do an 8500 foot ride.