Monday, June 26, 2023

Starting Mileage: 5169 Distance Traveled: 32

Today we woke in the bungalow well rested and ready for the day but no amount of sleep could’ve prepared us for the hike we decided to take. Our tour guide from yesterday had recommended the Cascade Canyon hike as something to do and even went so far as to say that it was one of the most beautiful places on the planet so of course we absolutely had to go. The 9.1 mile hike winds its way in between Grand Teton and Mt. Woodring with raging rapids and waterfalls galore. We boarded a ferry to cross Jenny Lake and boy oh boy was the view spectacular.

Once we got to the other side we immediately started hiking and I’m not going to go into huge detail but IT WAS AMAZING!!

And just to give you an example of waterfalls galore here are some of our pictures. See if you can find all of them.

About half way to the top we saw some moose ears poking out from the bushes. On the way back we really wanted to see it standing and if it wasn’t for Brady we wouldn’t have spotted it. It was standing about 15 feet off the path and was so cute.

About half way back it started to thunder like it was threatening to storm but it never really started to rain. We visited Hidden Falls on the way back and it was probably the best waterfall we’d seen yet.

Once we got back to the ferry there was a 30 minute wait but when we finally got back to the campsite we all had aching muscles and just wanted to take a stretch break. We had a bare bones campsite with no water and electric but a nice fire pit and picnic table. We made our first campfire of the trip and headed nachos!