I visited Grand Teton National Park and stayed a couple of days at the main lodge, in a cabin. The views are spectacular. The National Park Service installed signs everywhere, promising bears, but none appeared. The NPS bear wrangling division clearly requires some management attention. They had better luck getting the elk and antelope to show up as promised.
Did you know that paleo-Indians settled here 11,000 years ago? That’s what the NPS web site said. I was astonished; had no idea that dietary fad had been around for so long!
Yup, this is how the Grand Tetons looked, no photoshopping or anything. Grand Tetons is French, of course. In English it means Big Tits. Apparently, French fur traders thought the mountains looked like infant feeding apparatus. Apparently, they had been in the wilderness too long. I recommend searching the web for images of large breasts to refresh your memory and then you can judge for yourself.
According to a National Park pamphlet, the Grand Tetons are a young mountain range. That’s why there are no foothills. Mountain ranges don’t get foothills until puberty.Xena was wistful and indignant, believing that the private residence was rightfully hers.Warrior Princesses are not concerned by so-called “dangers” posed by the weeds beyond this sign.
So I looked up teton, ever diligent about adding to my French vocabulary. Who knew.
How is it that there are private residences in a national park? Did they predate parkhood?
Xena is growing. She’s a big cat as befits a warrior princess.
hahahaha! Foothills at puberty!
So I looked up teton, ever diligent about adding to my French vocabulary. Who knew.
How is it that there are private residences in a national park? Did they predate parkhood?
Xena is growing. She’s a big cat as befits a warrior princess.