Monday night – moose!

August 16, 2016 johncohn Leave a comment

Last night in the Tetons for now. We had a really nice day here. Today we’re celebrating what would’ve been my dad’s 86th birthday. We took a great hike to Leigh plate and had a picnic… I’ve got a ton of pictures from that but I’ve been realizing that I don’t have enough bandwidth to post them from here. I promise to go back and fix the last couple of days posts

It’s about 11 PM and we’re about to sit down for a celebratory dinner to remember my dad. We’re making his signature “bachelor spaghetti”…

In honor of my dad both Gabe and I did his favorite trick which was the human flagpole when we were hanging out in Jackson tonight

I do have to tell one important story from today… After we got back from our hike we were all hanging out of the house when my sister yelled “moose”! Sure enough it was a fairly good size female moose out munching leaves right outside our driveway.

We watched it for about a half an hour and got… What I now know… Was too close

After watching a while… The moose decided to walk down into the driveway.

My mom was there talking to a neighbor with her back turned to it. As the moose started walking towards us we all ran and yelled to my mom to get out of the way… But she was so engrossed in telling her story she didn’t see it. All of a sudden the moose started to run at my mom… I couldn’t believe it… Here was this huge animal running at a full gallop towards my mom… We screamed but my mom was so into telling her story she didn’t even look around.

But my mom was so into telling her story she didn’t even look around.

Miraculously the moose stop about 10 feet short and just wandered off into the woods… We’re sitting there with our mouths open and my mom looked at us and said “what?”

My mom looked at us and said “what?”

It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen… All’s well that ends well… But we all learned a lesson

Tell shorter stories 😉

Seriously… It was a end of a very good Long weekend with my family. It’s been nice getting together

here are some more pics from that day i’m adding now a few days later

Night all , night Sam

– Me

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Sunday evening – davis lake

August 14, 2016 johncohn Leave a comment

We left here about 9:30 this morning and drove north to the lupine trail. ..through a wonderful coincidence our friend avery from home was visiting the jackson area. Shes been working at a national park in Idaho this summer.

I’m ur goal was Davis lake.. It was off the trail that lead to surprise and ampitheatre lakes. Davis was not easy to reCh 4 miles up and the last mile was a very steep scramble up mixed size glacial boulders.

It was definetiley worth the hike. The lake was .. Filled with glacial silt that gave it an aquamarine shimmer. It was freezing cold,.. And unlike most places in the area.. Not that busy.. Maybe four other groups of hikers.