Please excuse the quality of the large scans. They are from a photo CD produced by Wolf Camera. As much as I like their developing, their scans are SORRY!!! These look this good only because I spent a few hours of color correcting and removal of copious amounts of lint and fuzz! |
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Our trip started out with an early morning flight to Salt Lake City on Saturday. We then rented a Jeep Cherokee and crammed all of our gear in the back. We took a fairly scenic route on US89 through Logan, Utah then past Bear Lake and eventually along the Snake River until we reached Jackson, WY that evening. |
| The next morning, we got up and headed out, some of us more slowly than
others since Keith had what seemed like a stomach virus (I won't discuss the details of
that here!). In order to get from Jackson to Pavillion (where the ranch is located) you must drive through Grand Teton National Park. Here you see Keith and Jeff posing in front of the Grand Teton. Several people were concerned about our visit to the west since the media would like for you to believe that the entire west is on fire. We saw one forest fire at the base of Mt. Moran. This not to say that this was not an incredibly bad fire season (Summer 2000) but, our mainstream media is full of a bunch of sensationalists. (Speaker steps down from soap box) |
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The rest of Sunday was spent driving to the ranch. We used Wyoming Horses out of Pavillion, WY. It is seldom that you meet a group of nicer people. They were more than accomadating in getting us ready for our trip. We leased our horses on what they call a short trip. We leased 5 horses (3 riding and 2 pack) along with saddles, panniers, etc. |
| Lonnie (of Wyoming Horses) delivered our horses to Dickinson Creek Campground in Dickinson Park. We then spent the better part of 3 or 4 hours trying to figure out how we were going to get that much gear on two pack horses. In the end, everything fit OK and we didn't have to leave any of our luxuries behind. Finally, we hit the trail. |  |
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Our intentions were to make it all the way from Dickinson Park to the Cirque of Towers on the first day. Due to our late start and the fact that these were the steepest and rockiest trails any of us had ever ridden on, we had to call it a day 3 miles short of our goal. |