Sep 2, 2020 - National Park Ride - West Yellowstone, MT to Teton Village, WY

 We had another beautiful sunny day.  34 when we woke up and 40 when we left. We got this down now.  Jerry is also ready to go.

We head to Quake Lake.  

Google:

Quake Lake (officially Earthquake Lake) is a lake in southwestern Montana in the United States. It was created after an earthquake struck on August 17, 1959, killing 28 people. Quake Lake is 190 feet (58 m) deep and 6 miles (9.7 km) long. US 287 follows the lake and offers glimpses of the effects of the earthquake and landslide

The middle of the mountain is the site where the land slide occurred.

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The earthquake measured 7.5 on the Richter magnitude scale (revised by USGS to 7.3) and caused an 80-million ton landslide, which formed a landslide dam on the Madison River. The earthquake was the most powerful to hit the state of Montana in historic times. The landslide traveled down the south flank of Sheep Mountain, at an estimated 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), killing 28 people who were camping along the shores of Hebgen Lake and downstream along the Madison River.

This is Courtney in her 8 layers of clothes and not very awake as she has not had her coffee yet :-)

This is a natural dam.

You can see this flows thru the canyon.  

And into a valley

Heading out from here and we go around the mountain and go back thru West Jackson.  As we are riding we actually go thru Idaho.  Add that state to the list.

Henry Lake in Idaho ... beautiful

As we head back into West Yellowstone, Check out this sign !!!!

Here Courtney got her coffee

Back into Yellowstone!!!!  In this pic I am riding with Ron and Courtney is with Larry.

This will be the day of waterfalls.  So beautiful!!!

Yellowstone is know for Old Faithful which is one of it many geysers.

Hey check this out, a corvette group. LOL

Still randomly see bison

This is Yellowstone Lake. 

Not sure if you can tell but the water is sooo clear. 

Larry and Ron thought this is either a Salmon or a trout.

We even crossed the Continental Divide.

Fun fact about the fires in Yellow stone.

Google:

Nature’s cycle of burns and new growth is essential to park health. Greater Yellowstone depends on fire. One of the two types of cones produced by lodgepole pines, for example, which make up nearly 80 percent of the park’s forests, only releases seeds when extremely high temperatures melt the resin sealing them. This ensures conditions exist in which seedlings thrive, meaning space to grow and plenty of sunlight coming through to the ground — conditions that follow a fire. Without fires, grasslands would eventually be lost as forests naturally take over, decreasing diversity at every level of the ecosystem. Without intermittent smaller fires, the likelihood of huge devastating fires increases.

As we traveled the last few days we see various stages from the fires. 

Recent

Starting to grow back

Leaving Yellowstone

Our tour guides !!!!!  (Ron and Courtney)

This is Jackson Lake with the Teton behind them

Larry and Courtney.  As you can see we are starting to peel off the layers.  It is now in the 70s

Heading into Jackson Hole, check out the bears in the raft.

Several places in town there were signs "beware of moose".  AND there were a lot of these

We are staying at Teton Village. Really nice and looks like a great place to ski.

Even hot tub on the roof

In town we sat outside for dinner and behind us is a ski run that doubles as a mountain bike path.

Next we hit a rodeo.  YEP!!!  we were allowed to attend but of course you had to "Social Distance"  UGH!!!

Larry and Ron are wear their dinner jacket.  Never a dull moment!!

Total miles:  223

Temps: 34-80

Route: SR 89