Grand Teton from the west side, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Wyoming, September 6, 2014
We were actually camped on the other side of the mountains in Grand Teton National Park but were going to hike a trail along Teton Creek called Teton Canyon Trail. The trailhead is near a campground that was a favorite when we lived about 150 miles further west in Idaho in the late 1970s. (These mountains are so tall that on clear pre-dawn mornings when driving to work, I could see these peaks silhouetted against the sky that was growing lighter.)
To get to the trailhead from Gros Ventre campground, we went out of the park to Jackson, Wyoming, and, from there, headed east on highway 22 over 8,432 ft Teton Pass into Idaho. At the state line, Wyoming 22 transitions to Idaho 33, which, if followed goes almost all the way to where we lived in Arco, Idaho.
To get to the trailhead, though, we turned back east in Driggs, Idaho, and traveled west 11 miles via Ski Hill Road back into Wyoming and, then, Teton Canyon Road.
We didn’t hike as far as we did when were younger, but it was good hike.
