August 2nd we left Yellowstone and heaede for the Grand Tetons. We drove south in Idaho and crossed the mountains at teton pass. 5 miles of 10% grade up one side and down the other. 10 miles total and boy were the breakes hot after comming down. Just arriving at the campground on the Gros Ventre river we were held up by some Bison

After we got into camp and set up we walked down to the river and met up with a moose.

There are lots of lakes here so we will try to paddle on as many as we can.

Slide lake

                                                                       String lake

                                                                    Lee Lake

We will be in the Grand tetons for a few more days and there is wifi here some we will keep posting more pics.

We left Priest lake and headed for Yellowstone. We stayed at Henery Lake SP south of West Yellowstone. When we arrived we had a short shower that produced a double rainbow.

We spent 5 days touring Yellowstone and have so many pictures it was hard to pick some to post but here are a few.

Blue hot spring

hot spring at the edge of river

wildlife crossing

July 17th We left Canada heading back into Idaho to Round lake. it wa sok but not much so we went to Priest Lake. We found a nice forrestry site and did some paddling on the lake. the 1st day the banks were lined with houses so no good pics. the 2nd day we went up to the north end of the lake where there were no housed and had a goo paddle with good scenery.

as we headed back to the ramp we noticed that a thunder storm was moving in so we rushed back and got the canoe on the truck and started back just as the storm hit. we thought that we werte lucky and did not get rained on but were we wrong.

as we headed back on the narrow backwoods road the wind blew so hard that trees started snapping off and blocking the road we had to stop behind 2 othe cars trapped on the road.

we were worried and about 4 more cars came up behind us. finally a dump truck came up and and he had a chain saw. so we all got out in the rain and started cutting trees and hauling then out of the road.

We had to cut our way thru 35 to 40 trees when we met a forrest service truck leading a ambulance coming tward us. they passed by and left us a clear way out. we passed many more downed trees and one had fallen just in front of an SUV and they had crashed into it but were OK. they had a long line of lg campers behind then that could not get thru.

We got back to camp and the sky was clearing and the rest of the night was clear and uneventfull.

July 22 we headed to Lolo Montana and camped a a forrestry site at Lolo creek. the Lewis and Clark trail and the Nez Perse trails pass right by the camp. we hiked some of the trail and it was steep narrow and rugged.

July 24 we woke up to 40 degrees and headed for Lake Como, a forrestry site but it had electric. We stopped at Big Hole national Battlefield where the army massacered a large of Nez Perce indians. the site was heart renching. At Lake Como we paddled around the lake and saw that there might be a water fall at the other end so we planned to hike to it the next day.

The falls is really wonderfull. The rocks along the side are not slippery so you can walk right along the water. sally took some goe video.