(just a note about working on this blogging platform, Blogger, IT SUCKS! )
Between 8/12 - 8/23/17 we traveled north to Gros Ventre campground east of the Tetons to experience the total solar eclipse. It went well.
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| On our way north we often overnight at the Afton Wyoming "homestead" of one of our extremely generous friends. No, the crab apples weren't blossoming in August, this is from an earlier trip. |
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| Our home for the week, the Gros Ventre campground, is huge. Over 300 sites and, according to my bike computer about 5 miles of loops. Being tenters at heart we stay in the no generator section. Also, because we don't have a generator. |
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| Some of us are happier with our accommodations than others. |
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| The range of set ups is always amazing. A log cabin--who'da thunk it! |
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| Yeah, huh? |
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| Morning bike ride from the camp site along Mormon Row road to view--the Tetons! |
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| OK, so I'm not the first to take this photo. But, I had to do it. |
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| Having fun on String Lake, but not us. |
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| They only missed 1 year, because of fires. |
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| The geography is diverse, from alpine hikes |
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| to high plains, sagebrush paths |
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| and sitting in cactus patches. |
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| Lunch at a scenic overlook. Everyone else is at the visitor's center. |
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| So, the big day arrives (best photo, ever!) |
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| On go the jackets. No crowd here |
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| The moon commences it's inexorable course |
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| Crescent shaped flecks of light mirror the progress of the eclipse |
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| (the I-was-there shot) The temperature drops, a dark shadow sweeps down from the Tetons at 1,000 miles per hour, a deep twilight engulfs us and we witness a benign natural phenomenon something like viewing the rings on Saturn or seeing a full, double rainbow. The surface of the sun is around 11,000 F but the corona, now visible with the unprotected eye, is 1,000,000 degrees +. After 2 1/2 very fast minutes a bright "diamond" appears at the upper right corner and on go the glasses. |
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| We return east through some beautiful scenery until Dubois then it's flatland |
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| until the Snowies where we like to camp before the descent into I-25. |
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