Happy Father's Day!

Egg Incubator

Just an update from us.  We're hanging out & doing fine. Fish eggs have arrived (about 330,000) & the hatchery is busy.  There's a total of 12 volunteers working here this summer, and they're all busy.  Two new TVs were added inside the hatchery. One TV runs a video dedicated to the Dace (looks like a minnow). The other TV runs a video showing manual spawning at the Auburn Wyoming Fish Hatchery followed by a video showing the release of the cutthroat. Additional traffic exterior signs were added to assist in visitor parking (and they seem to be working).

Visitation seems to be up as well.  Schools are beginning to bring their students out to the hatchery for a field day.  Donna & I managed to get the 180 student tour last week.  It's a great group of kids, but Donna & I were beat when that day was done!

Jackson not as busy as it could be for this time of year.  No long lines of vehicles trying to get into town, yet. Eating out continues to be expensive.  We're staying out of the parks, so not a lot of pictures.  We plan to get out and walk trails from other areas near here.  Just haven't done that so far.

Snow about gone off the Gros Ventre range.  Only a spot or two of snow remains on Snow King Mountain. We keep getting rain - mainly thunderstorms in the afternoon.  It's cool enough that snow remains (and sometimes gets added) at the higher elevations of the Tetons.  It still looks like the range is sugar coated when we walk from the hatchery up to the south entrance sign.

That's about it from here. Sorry the update isn't a lot more interesting.  Thanks for stopping by, though. Enjoy the long weekend.  Until next time, David 

     

Another Day in the Tetons

String Lake

We've gotten a couple of weeks in at the hatchery since we last posted.  We may get fish eggs this coming week.  It's our first time to see the new fish egg incubators in place though the installation is not complete (missing plumbing).  Visitation at the hatchery is picking up.  People are beginning to get out & fish at the fish pond.  Jackson still not crowded though there are times that it gets pretty busy.  We're in a rainy spell.  It's unusual for us while being here.  Light rain on and off with thunderstorms mixed in each day with rain chances exceeding 50% most days.  This coming Monday looks to be a fairly dry day before rain returns on Tuesday.  

We made another trip into the Tetons this past Thursday.  We walked along String Lake (the lake between Leigh Lake and Jenny Lake).  We arrived at the String Lake Picnic parking lot about 9:30 AM, and plenty of parking was still available.  As this is our first "hike" in the park, we chose to walk along String & Leigh Lakes.  It's a good break-in hike - really an easy walk.  We celebrated by eating pizza and breadsticks at Leeks Marina.

Below are some of the pictures we took during our walk along String & Leigh Lakes.  I think this gets everyone up to date on us. Thanks for dropping by and checking up on us.  Until next time, David

String Lake

Leigh Lake