After spending the night in Rock Springs, we said good-bye to I-80 and headed north on 191. The drive began with more clouds and flat landscape.
There were few towns, and not many people.
Ranch art
For almost 100 miles we drove through this desert basin. Every 5 - 7 miles the road would expand to two lanes and we drove in the right lane for about 1/2 mile so anyone who wanted, could pass us on the left. An efficient system.
After 75 miles, we were tantalized by the snow-covered mountains on the horizon.
We passed under a number of these road crossings for animals.
We stopped here for lunch, site of the Astoria Camp. Here, in 1811, sixty-one Astorians of the Pacific Fur Company camped for 5 days. They were on their way to the Pacific Ocean from St. Louis and were the second group to cross the continent, just 5 years after Lewis and Clark.
Very soon after lunch, we crossed The Rim, a pass at 7921', just before a fox crossed the road.
On the other side of the pass we entered Bondurant Scenic Byway and noticed these pronged-horn antelopes on the hillside and...
just a little further along a small heard of the pronged-horn.
As you can see, the scenery definitely began to change.
The Hoback River and Canyon.
A ribbon of highway, following the contours.
Just north of Jackson, the Grand Teton Mountains came into view.
We have been to the Tetons many times but we have never seen so much snow on the mountains.
A view of the mountains just before we turned onto the road to our campsite.
We are happy to be in a campground that is in a National Park with trees all around us and some
separation between sites.
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