Thursday, June 21, 2012

Hiking Snow King

 A few days ago on my day off I hiked up Snow King Mt., a ski mountain with a great bird's eye view of the town. I biked from Coyote Canyon to the trailhead (about 6 miles) and hiked up Josie's Ridge Trail (about 2 miles), which circled around the side of the mountain and followed the ridge-line up to the summit. I hiked back down the opposite side of the mountain and stopped at the bouldering park to climb before biking back to Coyote Canyon. Some other interns and I were saying we should start the mountain triathlon: biking, hiking, and climbing.

The view from Josie's Ridge Trail on Snow King Mountain.

Looking down on the town of Jackson near the top of Snow King Mountain.























The other night we also hiked up Vogul's Butte behind campus to watch the sunset and do some stargazing. It is amazing how many stars you can see here at night - you can even see the milky way. We saw at least four shooting stars that one night.

Sunset on the Tetons from Vogul's Butte. 

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