Tuesday, June 27th, 2023

Starting mileage: 5201, distance travelled: 37

We started the day with special single-serve sugar cereal for the kids and eggs and bacon for mom and dad.

We started out at the Colter Bay visitors center while dad took a shower. The kids got attacked by a black bear and then we watched a movie about the history of Grand Teton National Park.

We attempted a short hike to Swan Lake and Heron Pond only to be foiled by some closed trails due to heightened bear activity. We still made it the back way to Heron Pond and saw a giant flock of Canada geese, GBH, an osprey diving for fish (a near miss) and an American white pelican which has recently begun visiting the park.

After lunch we drove to some lookouts to view wildlife and found a bear driving a car!

From a distance we saw a herd of pronghorns and braved a side road to get a closer look. We also found a moose or elk print in the dried mud. It looked like we could continue along the dirt road and connect back to the main road but only 1/4 mile shy of the main road, we approached a flooded section of road and had to turn around and traverse the 3 miles back on the very sketchy road. David was convinced we would lose our generator in a deep culvert with rocks the size of two fists, which we ended up braving twice.

We ended the evening walking from outrun campsite to a pizza place. There was a wagon wheel bench out front. After dinner, we enjoyed the fudge we bought at Wall Drug.