May have pulled it off

You know what they say about the weather in _________ . Just wait 10 minutes and it will change. Well, that certainly has been true here today in Grand Teton. We woke up to heavy, wet snow falling and pretty much no visibility. But after breakfast it eased us, stopped snowing and the clouds thinned a bit. So we decided to hit the car and see what we could actually see.

The first stop was the Oxbow Bend in the Snake River, only a few miles from our hotel. It's a beautiful spot, with Mt. Moran (barely) visible in the back. Notice the reflections in the water. While there's apparently lots of wildlife in the marshes around it, we didn't see anything but a couple of small birds.

Oxbow Bend, May 2012

From there we continued south on the highway until we came to the abandoned Mormon Row community. In the 1890s this area was settled by what eventually became a community of 33 families. By the middle of the 20th century it was mostly abandoned. These barns are among the structures that remain standing, empty.

Mormon Road Barn 1, May 2012

Mormon Road Barn 2, May 2012

The Grand Teton National Park is, of course, ultimately about the Grand Tetons. They have been playing hide and seek with us since we arrived; one minute one can't even tell there is a mountain range there, the next they peek out from the clouds and storms. After many tries, I finally got a few shots of the two tallest peaks in the range, Grand Teton itself and Mt. Moran.

Grand Teton & Mt. Moran, May 2012

They are magnificent.

We still have some hours of daylight left and early tomorrow before we head on south, so I may be able to do better. But at least I can prove I was here.