We're using the 1000 Greatest Places book as a kind of guide for our trip, which is really how I found out about Grand Teton National Park and the Jenny Lake hike. If we didn't have the book I'm not sure if we'd have gone, Yellowstone offers so much. Thus far, the book hasn't steered us wrong. Everything that we've done according to the book has been very accurate. The book told us that the Jenny Lake hike was beautiful, but very popular. That was true. After our hikes in Yellowstone we weren't as prepared to share the trail with other folks. Luckily, since we were doing the longer hike we only had comrades for the first half of the hike.... Comrades? That was a very nice adjective. What I meant was that people let their screaming children climb all over the rocks on a particularly treacherous patch of switchbacks and I thought I was going to die via the grubby hands of a nine year old. Deep breath. It all turned out ok. I did not kill the children and they did not kill me. Jenny Lake is gorgeous and The Grand Teton mountain range is really stunning.
The sun was actually shining, so when I set up this picture I couldn't see that bush that's blocking us. Never-the-less, it gives you an idea of how pretty things were.
I've determined that I only hike to gorgeous waterfalls or mountain lakes now. This trip is going to make me very, very hard to please. [Insert your own comment here about how hard I was to please to begin with]
There are a few other stunning pictures of this lake, but honestly, this is the only one that proves that I didn't buy a postcard. I cooked dinner staring at the lake and giggling to myself about how romantic my honeymoon is.
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