From Cooke City, north of Yellowstone, all the way through the park and exit the south entrance into Teton National Park. The weather was a little grim in Yellowstone on the journey, unsurprising with snow forecast next week, but luckily the sun was shining over Teton. The scenery of Yellowstone slowly changes from mountains and valleys into flatter forested plains until you enter Teton and before you are shear, majestic, sharp, from lake to sky, mountains. The mountains are young in world terms, created 10 million years ago by massive earthquakes the mountains rose whilst the valley floor dropped and further erosion sculpted the landscape creating dramatic jagged peaks and uninterrupted views. The pronghorn were gathering in the valley getting ready for their winter migration - unfortunately my little fuji F10 just hasn’t got the zoom power to pick out a pronghorn from large numbers of yards away, but I do have my binoculars and they are very pretty animals with lovely markings on their face and body. The above deer was way way closer as I had disturbed it whilst walking besides Jenny Lake.
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