Tetons

Here, I did do a little bit of homework. But I also stopped at the visitors' center, where two men in their 70's fought for my attention telling me where I had to go. On one side, they were appalled (and yet impressed?) that I was going ALL BY MYSELF to the "backcountry" (backpacking, that is). On the other, they wanted to send me in this 20-mile loop, 5,000 ft elevation gain. And it was already 4 pm. And there was a wall of ice to climb, and I was gonna have to use an ice ax (which obviously I don't own). I ended up deciding, with the help of the park ranger, on doing just a 5-mile hike into the Cascade Cannyon fork. The ranger particularly liked this hike bc it was in the back of the Tetons. And OMG did I find out what she was talking about. I might be in love again. Not as deeply as with Glacier NP, but at least infatuated for sure.