Showy Daisy wildflowers flourish among other wildflowers in the Alaska Basin of the Teton Mountains.
Earlier this week myself and another hiker headed out into the Alaska Basin for the first time. While still in the Teton Mountains, it’s technically just outside of the National Park located inside the Jedediah Smith Wilderness bordering the western edge of the park. August has been described as the best time to go for the dramatic wildflowers displays.
We hiked into the Alaska Basin via the Static Peak Divide through Grand Teton National Park on August 18th and while the wildflowers were on the decline, they were still out in amazing displays! It was almost as if Jackson Pollock was painting from the sky in purples, reds, blues and yellows on a canvas of green. It’s an incredibly dynamic place with an obvious abundance of wildflowers surrounded by enormous peaks, all pouring water into the basin.
August 21st, 2010
Tags: Alaska Basin, Canyon, Jedediah Smith Wilderness, Mountains, Wildflowers, Wyoming
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Perseid Meteors streak across the Milky Way Galaxy above Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
The Perseid Meteor Shower put on a great show this year! A couple of nights before the peak, I went out to Shadow Mountain in Bridger-Teton National Forest to watch the show. I was surprised by the amount of light pollution coming from Jackson, but it luckily didn’t deter from a beautifully dark sky farther north. I was able to catch two meteors in this particular shot. One is visible streaking across the Milky Way Galaxy, another, a little more faint, is just beneath that almost perpendicular to it.
Did you get any shots of the meteors? Let’s see them!
August 15th, 2010
Tags: Bridger-Teton National Forest, Jackson Hole, Meteors, Milky Way Galaxy, Mountains, Night, Wyoming
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A red fox searches for food in a campfire pit in Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming.
Life’s been pretty busy lately so as an opportunity to get away for a bit and also to potentially catch a few meteors from the Perseid Meteor Shower this year, I headed out to Shadow Mountain to do a little camping. While I was setting up my tent, right behind me I heard a crunching sound. Naturally, since it was almost completely silent outside, I was a little startled. Upon turning around, however, I saw this little red fox staring at me, sometimes coming up close enough for me to reach out and pet (which I didn’t – I believe in keeping wildlife wild).
I couldn’t quite make out what he was eating off of the ground considering the only thing I saw were rocks, but it definitely had a distinct crunch about it and there wasn’t any other signs of life large enough to make that much noise where he was picking up things to eat. Regardless, I followed him to the next campsite at which point I got this shot where he began scouring in a campfire pit for some leftovers that might have gotten dropped.
August 13th, 2010
Tags: Bridger-Teton National Forest, Fox, Wildlife, Wyoming
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