Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota. Looking across a prairie dog town.
Cute!!! Prairie dog.
John along the shores of the Little Missouri River, T. Roosevelt National Park.
Beth at the Little Missouri River.
John along the Beartooth Highway, a very STEEP mountain pass (don't look down!)
Beth and John along the Beartooth Hwy. Photo courtesy of a biker dude on his way to Sturgis.
First sighting of a whitebark pine!
At the top of the Beartooth Highway, elev. approx. 10,000'
John pretending to be a mountain goat.
Real mountain goats!
Hiking into Martin Basin Lakes, Beartooth Wilderness area.
Pink monkey flower.
You can catch an exotic brook trout with every cast in the Martin Basin Lakes.
Wright Lake in the early morning light.
Spogen Lake waterfall.
Elk sighting in Yellowstone National Park.
Another elk sighting...super close-up!
John admiring the geothermal features at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone.
The honeymooners in front of steaming hot water, full of thermophile bacteria...how romantic.
Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone.
Flyfishing the Lamar River. Beth catches the first fish..a 15" cutthroat-rainbow (cutbow) hybrid trout.
Pronghorn antelope ("speed goat") at dusk.
John catches a nice native cutthroat trout in Soda Butte Creek, Yellowstone.
Beth catches a nice native cutthroat in Soda Butte Creek, too.
Cooke City, Montana. We spent three nights here while fishing and sight-seeing in Yellowstone.
American Bison (Bison bison), aka "wooly."
Fishing the Lamar River, until a pack of bison commandeered our fishing spot.
The commandeering pack of bison.
Yellowstone Lake.
Jackson Lake and the Tetons.
Jackson Hole as seen from Signal Mountain.
The Tetons.
Hiking the Teton Crest Trail.
Marion Lake midges.
Marion Lake, our first campsite on the Teton Crest Trail.
Looking back on Marion Lake and our campsite.
Snow in July!
Nice views on the Teton Crest Trail :)
Southwest side of the Grand Teton and fields of wonderful-smelling lupine.
Death Canyon.
Cute!!! A yellow-bellied marmot.
Our campsite in the Alaska Basin, in the shade of a 500+ year-old whitebark pine, with views of Buck Mountain in the distance.
Indian paintbrush.
Another marmot.
Buck Mountain. John's in this picture...can you spot him?
At the top of Static Peak, elev. 11,303'
At the top of Static Peak, looking east over Jackson Hole.
We did it!!!
At the top of Static Peak looking west towards Buck Mountain, with the Grand Teton in the distance.
At the top of Static Peak. Beth successfully climbs her first mountain.
One more view, looking south, from the top of Static Peak.
Elephant flower. Can you see how each blossom resembles an elephant with the trunk sticking out?
Buck Mountain in the last rays of the setting sun.
Alaska Basin Sunset.
Hiking out of the Alaska Basin through fields of wildflowers.
Last view of the Alaska Basin.
Hiking towards Hurricane Pass. The mountains are the backside of the Tetons.
The intrepid honeymooners.
The range as viewed by the French explorers who named it "Les Trois Tetons." Translated, it means "The Three Breasts." Do you think those guys spent a long time in the woods or what?
Sticky Jacob's-ladder. The leaves have a distinctive, skunk-like odor.
Moss campion. The dime is for perspective.
Hurricane Pass...it was WINDY! Nothing to stop the west wind blowing across Idaho.
Glacial Lake in the valley west of the Tetons.
John in front of the glacial lake. Note the impressive moraine.
Backpacking out through Cascade Canyon. Beth wrenched her knee on a rock while admiring the view. Dang view!
Fishing the Snake River.
Beth cathes her biggest fish of the trip...a nice, fat, native cutthroat.
Someone's excited about catching a "big one."
Homestead east of the Tetons. Can you imagine? What a tough life. The entrance is a little short for John.
At least it had a nice view.
In front of the Tetons and Snake River.
John at Jenny Lake.
Cascade Canyon (where we backpacked out of the Teton Crest Trail) as viewed across Jenny Lake.
The "Cathedral Group": Grand Teton, Mount Owen, and Mount Teewinot.
Beehive Geyser eruption, Yellowstone.
Beehive Geyser, post-eruption.
Star Pool.
Geothermal feature pouring into the Firehole River.
John admiring the cool algae mats.
Old Faithful eruption.
Yellow monkey flower.
Black Sand Basin geyser.
Boiling mudpot.
John thinks the Spastic Geyser is A-okay.
Good thing there is an interpretive sign...otherwise we never would have known how this boulder got here.
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Awwwww.
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River.
Beth catches her first-ever brown trout on the Gibbon River.
Beth catches her first-ever rainbow trout on the Gibbon River.
Fishing the Gibbon River. Notice the burned out trees from the Yellowstone Fires of 1988.
Gibbon River.
John catches a VERY nice rainbow trout on the Gibbon River.
Watch out for animal jams!!
I guess it was a male bison that was walking down the middle of the road.
Yellowstone River as viewed from the Fishing Bridge (where fishing is no longer allowed).
Last view of the Yellowstone bison.
Last view of Yellowstone Lake.
Heading east though the Absaroka mountain range.
Plains just west of the Bighorn Mountains.
Badlands National Park.
Radio-collared bighorn sheep in the Badlands. 
Badlands...and the last picture of our honeymoon. 
3 comments:
Looks like it was a fun trip!
Hey Beth! I got your blog site from brdgemeister's wife. Looks like you guys had a great time hiking. I hope you took some time to relax too!
Great pictures! Y'all should do a Sierra backpacking trip with me next summer!
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