Grand Tetons National Park

This picture (and picture #’s 4071 and 4073) was taken when we were driving from West Yellowstone, MT to Jackson, WY over Teton Pass. Teton Pass provides access from the Jackson Hole valley in Wyoming to the Teton valley of eastern Idaho. The Teton Pass in Wyoming is designated as Hwy 22. At the Idaho state line, it becomes Hwy 33. The pinnacle of the pass is at 8,431 feet. It had been closed earlier in the morning due to “white out” conditions and was still lightly snowing. While driving we were able to find a pull out to park at and were able to take these pictures.

Picture Number: CM1_4068

Date: May 2019

Camera: Nikon D7100

ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/160 sec

F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 55 mm

This picture (and picture #’s 4068 and 4071) was taken when we were driving from West Yellowstone, MT to Jackson, WY over Teton Pass. Teton Pass provides access from the Jackson Hole valley in Wyoming to the Teton valley of eastern Idaho. The Teton Pass in Wyoming is designated as Hwy 22. At the Idaho state line, it becomes Hwy 33. The pinnacle of the pass is at 8,431 feet. It had been closed earlier in the morning due to “white out” conditions and was still lightly snowing. While driving we were able to find a pull out to park at and were able to take these pictures.

Picture Number: CM1_4073

Date: May 2019

Camera: Nikon D7100

ISO: 200 Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec

F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 20 mm

This picture (and picture #’s 4068 and 4073) was taken when we were driving from West Yellowstone, MT to Jackson, WY over Teton Pass. Teton Pass provides access from the Jackson Hole valley in Wyoming to the Teton valley of eastern Idaho. The Teton Pass in Wyoming is designated as Hwy 22. At the Idaho state line, it becomes Hwy 33. The pinnacle of the pass is at 8,431 feet. It had been closed earlier in the morning due to “white out” conditions and was still lightly snowing. While driving we were able to find a pull out to park at and were able to take these pictures.

Picture Number: CM1_4071

Date: May 2019

Camera: Nikon D7100

ISO: 200 Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec

F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 20 mm

This picture (and #4237) was taken when we stopped to see Lewis Falls. Lewis Falls are located on the Lewis River in Yellowstone NP, just south of Lewis Lake. While the falls were nothing special the views on the other side of the road (the East side) were much more interesting – as shown here. While technically this is in Yellowstone NP the picture, for my purpose, is classified as Grand Teton NP because visiting Grand Teton was the point of the drive that day.

Picture Number: CM1_4256

Date: May 2019

Camera: Nikon D7100

ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec

F-Stop: f/13 Lens: 55 mm

This picture (and #4256) was taken when we stopped to see Lewis Falls. Lewis Falls are located on the Lewis River in Yellowstone NP, just south of Lewis Lake. While the falls were nothing special the views on the other side of the road (the East side) were much more interesting – as shown here. While technically this is in Yellowstone NP the picture, for my purpose, is classified as Grand Teton NP because visiting Grand Teton was the point of the drive that day.

Picture Number: CM1_4237

Date: May 2019

Camera: Nikon D7100

ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec

F-Stop: f/13 Lens: 55 mm

This picture was taken at the Jenny Lake Visitor's Center. It is a picture of Teewinot Mountain. Teewinot Mountain is the sixth highest peak in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. The name of the mountain is derived from the Shoshone Native American word meaning "many pinnacles".

Picture Number: CM1_6385

Date: May 2023

Camera: Nikon D7100

ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec

F-Stop: f/13 Lens: 26 mm

This picture of the Tetons was taken from the main balcony at the Jackson Lake Lodge.

Picture Number: CM1_4161

Date: May 2019

Camera: Nikon D7100

ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec

F-Stop: f/13 Lens: 55 mm

This picture of the Tetons was taken from near Jackson, WY.

Picture Number: CM1_6385

Date: May 2023

Camera: Nikon D7100

ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec

F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 130 mm

Mormon Row

Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, sent parties from the Salt Lake Valley to establish new communities and support their expanding population. Mormon homesteaders, who settled east of Blacktail Butte near the turn of the 19-century, clustered their farms to share labor and community, a stark contrast with the isolation typical of many western homesteads. These settlers first arrived in the 1890s from Idaho establishing a community (named Grovont by the U.S. Post Office) known today as “Mormon Row.” Homesteaders established 27 homesteads in the Grovont area because of relatively fertile soil, shelter from winds by Blacktail Butte and access to the Gros Ventre River. Despite the harsh conditions of Jackson Hole, Mormon settlers grew crops by using irrigation. These hardy settlers dug ditches by hand and with teams of horses, building an intricate network of levees and dikes to funnel water from central ditches to their fields between 1896 and 1937. Water still flows in some of these ditches.

Mormon Row Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 as an Historic District.