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weather. We hoped for moose but never saw the shore, to a height of 12,605 feet. It
one. seemed to fill the sky.
On our last day there we drove to Jackson Here it was bitingly cold, so cold my breath
Lake and parked at Colter Bay. This is froze in my beard. But the brilliance of the
normally a summer playground, but the day and the grandeur of the lake were too
parking lot was covered in snow and most of inviting to resist. We ventured onto the
the visitors were unloading skis and other surface and were soon following tracks left in
winter gear. We did not know what to expect, the snow left by skiers and snowmobilers.
and we hiked down a path cut through chest Farther out on the lake a family was pitching
high snow to the lake and were astounded by a tent, and soon they were boring through
what lay before us — a frozen, snow-covered the ice with an auger. They weren’t the only
expanse backed by the jagged peaks of the group ice fishing on the lake.
Grand Teton Range. The mountains stood like As for us, we were just giddy with the
sentinels, with Grand Teton, the tallest, pleasure of being there. There was just one
anchoring the southern point at 13,772 feet thing to do: Make a snow angel right there in
elevation. Mount Moran, directly across from the middle of Jackson Lake.
where we stood, rose 6,000 straight up from
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