Saturday, September 2, 2017

Wyoming: Grand Tetons/ Solar Eclipse: August 18-21

Grand Teton National Park



August 21st-we spent the weekend at this beautiful free camp spot on a hill in the Grand Teton National Forest with a perfect view of the Solar Eclipse, and a professional photographer from Germany on our left and friends from the Netherlands to our right.


 We had 2 minutes of totality where the sun was completely covered by the moon.  During the 1.25 hours of partial eclipse leading up to this time, it slowly got darker and colder.  I had to go get a sweatshirt on.  During the 2 minutes of totality, the lighting was very strange- almost like sunset, but not really (see picture below).  Our friends from San Diego said that the knats came out for those 2 minutes, and then immediately left afterwards.

This was our friend burrowing on our campsite:

 Got a great shot of this bear before he noticed a bunch of us staring at him with cameras- then he bolted, thankfully in the other direction!


Hell's half acre:

Yellowstone starts in Montana and goes south into Wyoming- never saw a sign in Yellowstone, so took a picture on the way out!

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