1 A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm damned if I see how the helican!
(Dixon Lanier Merritt)
2 Steve gets left behind.
3 Steve does a good flying robot.
4 Look at that form...
5 Oh yeah... major air.
6 Crashing back to reality.
7 You mus be very proud of yourself.
8 The view from Signal Mountain in Grand Teton.
9 This landscape has a lot of glacial features called drumlins (small hills) and kettle lakes. The kettles were formed where chunks of glacier broke-off and when they melted left behind the depression that is now filled with water.
10 The Tetons are an amazing mountain range formed on a normal fault caused by the stretching of the crust. Why did the crust stretch? It's due largely in part to uplift caused by the crust moving riding over the Yellowstone hotspot. TO give you an ide od the impressive movement that's happened in this area during the last 10 million years, the layers of rocks that match the top of the Tetons are found 25,000' below the valley floor seen in this photo. And the Tetons are still rising.
11 Mt Moran on the right and Jackson Lake in the center of the view.
12 Me & Laura.
13 Susan.
14 Susan, Laura and Becca.
15 Cecilia, Steve, Vera, Horace.
16 Pretty... don't know their name.
17 Next stop: Slide Lake.
18 Steve was chilled by Jordan's acount of the massive Gros Ventre landslide that plugged the Gros Ventre River and impounded this lake.
19 Another beautiful but cold day.
20 We drove to the lake's outlet, site of the catastrophic failure of the landslide debris dam that caused the town of Kelley to be wiped out.
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