{"id":1161,"date":"2012-09-22T19:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T02:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:09:59","slug":"september-22-wyoming-in-a-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/22\/september-22-wyoming-in-a-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"September 22: Wyoming in Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Teton<\/a>
Teton Wilderness Wildfire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mile 9453 – Moran, Wyoming<\/strong>, near Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.\u00a0 We left Rawlins in the morning and drove through hours and hours of impressively desolate scenery.\u00a0 We crossed the Great Divide Basin, where water has no way to get to either the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.\u00a0 We stopped in Dubois (pronounced “do-boys”) and had lunch outside at the Cowboy Cafe.\u00a0 Very enjoyable, good food, and\u00a0pleasant conversation with semi-locals (a girl who lived in Lander but was originally from Wisconsin and was questioning her choice of future mother-in-law).<\/p>\n

As we approached northern Wyoming, we saw more and more smoke from forest fires and finally encountered a big mushroom cloud from a fire\u00a0about 15 miles\u00a0from where we are staying now.\u00a0 It is creating its own towering cumulus cloud and from a distance looks like a continuously exploding atomic bomb.\u00a0 Fortunately, the wind is blowing it away from us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the late afternoon, we arrived at the Grand Tetons, supposedly named by French voyageurs who must not have seen women for a while, because those mountains are much too craggy to evoke that image for me.\u00a0 My idea of “grand tetons” would look more like shield volcanoes.<\/p>\n

As we approached sunset, we arrived at the classic vista point where Ansel Adams took the iconic picture of the Snake River with the Grand Tetons in the backgound.\u00a0 Lots of people with super-fancy camara equipment were lined up to take their own Ansel Adams picture.\u00a0 Alas, the mountains were only visible as silhouettes in the smoky haze.\u00a0 P.J. felt very frustrated.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Aspens are at peak here.\u00a0 Difficult to capture foliage glory in the smoke, but somehow my mind’s eye filtered that out.\u00a0 For me, it was a fabulous sight to round out a very enjoyable day.<\/p>\n

\"Straight<\/a>
U.S. Highway 287<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wind<\/a>
Wind River Near Dubois, Wyoming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shoshone<\/a>
Shoshone Country<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Teton<\/a>
Teton Buffalo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Grand<\/a>
Grand Tetons and the Snake River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Our<\/a>
Aspen Color<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Photographs © 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mile 9453 – Moran, Wyoming, near Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.\u00a0 We left Rawlins in the morning and drove through hours and hours of impressively desolate scenery.\u00a0 We crossed the Great Divide Basin, where water has no way to get to either the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.\u00a0 We stopped in Dubois (pronounced “do-boys”) and … Continue reading “September 22: Wyoming in Haze”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}