Mellow hike in Cascade Canyon

Well, instead of starting the canoe part of the Mount Moran trip, we opted for a hike through scenic Cascade Canyon on Tuesday. Although we could have made it a 10+ mile hike, we opted to turn back about 3 miles in, making the round trip a nice 6.4 miles overall.

We took the Jenny lake boat shuttle across the lake, so the approach to the canyon was very reasonable.

This canyon is known for it's views of the Grand Teton, Teewinot Mountain and Mount Owen. The scenery was incredible, and our GPS track shows how close we were to these mountains (near the top of the picture to the right). Cascade canyon is literally a mile straight down from the summits of these mountains, and having been on two of them, we surely know what it's like!

In addition to the great views of the mountains, we were lucky enough to see two moose -- a bull and a cow. The cow was out in the open near a stream, and the bull was thrashing through some high brush, so we only saw antlers.

We also saw, a few rock climbers high on a ridge, and a few nice, lush waterfalls coming down from the glaciers. All in all, a really great hike in the canyon.

More pictures here.