Wed, 22 Aug 2012

West Coast Whirlwind
More photos to come, but here’s a taste of our whirlwind trip out West for the Hubbard - Zapolsky wedding. We flew out, picked up a car and drove to Sun Mountain Lodge (for the pre-wedding parties and wedding). Then headed to Yellowstone for 4 nights (this is a picture coming up the trail from the Brink of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone).

The wedding was the social highlight; lots of good people coming together to celebrate in a lovely place with plenty of fun things to do.

But since we were more or less in the neighborhood… we managed to visit all the highlights in Yellowstone in our 4 days there (this is Norris Geyser Basin) with a lot of driving around between spots (and just the driving there is beautiful). We did not get stuck in any any large bearjams (or other wildlife jams), but we did see plenty of wildlife.

And, of course, spectacular scenery as well. Though many of the distant views were a bit hazy due to all the western forest fires.

After Yellowstone, we drove down to Grand Teton and spent two nights there (this is the top of the Grand View trail close to Teton Lake Lodge). The weather was hot and dry most of the time we were there but it always cooled off at night.

And from the Tetons, we drove across southern Idaho (Via Craters of the Moon), northern Oregon and stopped at Mount Saint Helens on our way back to Seattle and the plane home

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