tetons

September's Yellowstone trip incorporated several days/nights in the Tetons this year. I had potential hikes/itineraries planned for Mrs.TractorDoc and I during the daylight hours, but a lot was based on weather and how we were feeling at this point in the week. We were nearing five days in...

With a little bit of luck I found myself with a long weekend available and a beautiful weather window - so I decided to get one more good mountain trip in before settling in for the winter. Still unsure where I'd be going, I made a Meet Up post here on BCP and was fortunate enough to have...

Planned this year to go with @Bob for loops through Bear Basin and/or across the Divide to fish the lower Fitzpatrick Wilderness. Also made plans for one of my favorite off trail fishing spots in the Popo Agia Wilderness. The weather and the mountains had other plans. Bought tickets in January...

Hello everyone! This was originally going to be a 7-8 day backpacking trip that was cut down to 4 days because of the fear of the trip being smoked out as the smell was strong in the air and it was very prevalent off to the Northwest / west... ...Also partially because I was having a hard...

The inspiration for this trip came from Leigh Ortenburger's book, A Climbers Guide to the Tetons. Having spent a couple of summers working in YNP, I had managed to learn enough climbing to find the easiest ways up Grand, Middle and South Tetons. Ortenburgers condensed pocket size book had been...

About a year ago I asked for Yellowstone advice (https://backcountrypost.com/threads/yellowstone-family-trip-planning.9533/) and a number of you were very helpful. We were able to get reservations in both parks so there wasn't as much driving. I did not really want to go to Grand Teton, but it...

I know most of us don't really want to relive the debacle that was 2020, but this was actually a highlight of an otherwise terrible year. As spring turned to summer and it became that my planned PCT hike wasn't happening, I made other plans. Those plans involved long-distance hiking, but in a...

I realize there is already a good deal of info on the web about the Teton Crest Trail including a few great trip reports on BCP, but in the interest of contributing, I would like to share my experience on the TCT. Maybe a bit of this info will help someone in future planning. If nothing else, a...

After my first visit to Yellowstone National Park two years ago as a leader for our local scout trip, I couldn't wait to bring my family back and show off some of the amazing geo-thermal features and waterfalls. Rather than push for it the next year, we opted to wait an additional year, making...

Pre Trip I didn't decide to do this trip until after all the permits were gone online, so I showed up at the Moose Visitor Center at about 6 AM and I was the second person in line. I drove up the night before from Farmington, UT and slept in my car in Jackson. I was lucky and was able to get...

Last August some friends and I did our first ever backpacking trip in the Tetons. It was such a fun trip! I had been wanting to do the TCT for many years! Because of work schedules and vacations days we were only able to do a 3 day trip. We cheated and took the tram at Teton Village and hiked...

I've been taking advantage, weather permitting, of the Columbus Day weekend for a number of years to head up to the Teton Wilderness and get some October backpacking in. These trips tend to be the last of my backpacking for the year, so I always look forward to a short trip before the snow...

All - thanks for all of your help in assisting me and my group in planning our trip. Leading up to the trip we thought we would need ice axes for the Divide (we were permitted for Aug 3-5). When we went to the Ranger station in Moose/Visitor Center on the 2nd they showed us a picture and said...

Two iconic parks in one whirlwind weekend. The accommodations were relatively plush. Two nights in Island Park and a third on the shores of Jackson Lake at the Signal Mountain Lodge. Hikes were, with one exception, short and languid. That one exception: I nearly caused myself a cardiac crisis...

No sleeping in today! This was another big day that we had been dreaming about for months. Today we would climb up over Paintbrush Divide. But it wasn't going to be easy. We could make out the trail from our camp, as it climbed steadily along the increasingly steep mountain slope. No...

What can I say, woke up to another beautiful day and it was going to be a big one. We had waited for this day for months. You hear about it, you read about it. Today we were going over Hurricane Pass but it was going to be a five+ mile hike before we started that climb. But it was a nice one...

Teton's Indeed! Doug and Anita Tour Teton Crest Trail August 2015 We have hiked the trails of Northern Minnesota and Michigan's Isle Royale, Glacier Park Montana and the Wind River Range in Wyoming. So we set the bar high in terms of beauty and physical challenge and the Teton's continued that...

Grand Teton National Park, September 12th to 20th, 2015 Joey nominated me to write this report but I'm just going to share my experience and let the others chime in to share theirs if they want to. Mike Tyson said that "everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth". This past week...

7/26-29/15 Back in the spring, my friend Richard broached the idea of backpacking in the Tetons. I said I'd be down if I could get the time off. When the idea came to include summitting South Teton, I was more down. And voila it worked out that I could have a long weekend for the trip. So...

I usually do at least one multi-day backpacking trip with my wife and a friend or two. This year turned out to be a little different. After making the Teton Crest Trail reservations my wife and I found out that we were expecting twins in October. With this in mind she, of course, would not be...