by Karen on July 20, 2010
in quilts
We started out the day seeing more moose! 3 of this time – we think two of them are the same that we saw last night but we are not positive of course. I didn’t bother to get photos as I know I was too far away. Then we were about 30 minutes from the campground late this afternoon and we saw our first female moose this trip:
Now you may ask – for those of you who do not know – female moose do not have antlers, male moose do 
she was only about 10 feet from the road.
I was telling y’all a day or two ago that people make things out of antlers – well today I got a chance to take photos of some. A little cabin/general store is open to the public here and here is a moose antler chair – doesn’t that look comfy!
And a table out of elk antlers. Cute huh, don’t you want one
The little cabin/general store was interesting to see. There was a seasonal worker there in 1800’s clothing, and she was even baking cookies in the big old wood stove (and burning them I hate to say):
Replica spools of thread:
The outside of the store:
The inside of the store area. There were some quilts hanging on a rack to one side but I didn’t bother to get photos – they were imports – the cheap kind and still had their tags on – they weren’t for sale but for the old look I think – couldn’t they have gotten a couple old ones from someone!
More from today’s activities on the next post! Thank you all for your comments and e mail. It is so nice to se you all are interested in moose! And no it is not moosees or anything else – no plural for moose.
by Karen on July 20, 2010
in quilts
I told you all that we saw more moose yesterday. I do believe this is the most moose we have seen in one trip – the count now is at 6. We did not get photos of all of them but the 2 that were only 5 minutes from the campground we did. I took photos with my camera and zoomed in as close as I could with my Nikon Cool Pix this is the result:
One of the moose:
Two moose:
Mike has a Pentax K10D with a telephoto lens – these are what he got:
One of the big guys – they were quite a way from us:
The other guy:
A panorama view from yesterday’s tram ride:
And another one:
Today the 20th is our last full day here in the Grand Teton’s. We are going to be driving around the park a bit looking at things. Tomorrow we are moving over into Idaho. Right now we plan on camping two days at Idaho Falls. We used to live there years ago and want to look over all the old places we used to see. When Mike was in the Navy he was stationed there working out in the middle of the sage brush desert at a nuclear training center for the navy two different times. The navy does not train out there anymore but back in the 70’s there were a lot of navy families living there and in another town called Arco. We lived in Idaho Falls two different times renting and then the last time we were there we bought a house in Arco and lived there for 3 years. We moved from there to Arkansas in 1980 when Mike got out of the navy.
A long time ago with the girls when they were kids we took the tram ride to the top of one of the mountains in the area. We decided to do it again.
The building that you start at and get on the tram – it goes up to the mountain in the distance that you see in this photo:
Some of the view at the top:
We were about half way up the mountain when another tram is coming down – this is the top of that tram:
More of the mountain at the top:
This sign gives you the information – I don’t think they it is normal to have up to 100 people on these – maybe in an emergency? There were barely 25-30 on the ones we were on and saw others arrive and depart with the same. We knew it would be cold and windy at the top and we had jackets with us. It was 56 degrees but the wind made it feel like 30 or so. Some people came up with tank tops – shivering here thinking of what they must have felt like – ice cubes perhaps!
To the very top:
Today we saw 4 more moose and got photos of two of them. Will post those later, I need to get the photos from Mike. I took some too – but well you see there is a difference between a telephoto lens and a Nikon Cool Pix a big difference! I will show it to you later.
(this written on evening of 19th)
