Mid-June Update

Lake Creek Trail, LSR Preserve, GRTE

We're more or less getting into the swing of things. Lots to remember, but we're getting there.  Getting use to working the parking lot. Of the three days per week we volunteer, I tend to be roving on two of them.  That keeps you real active when you rove and work the parking lot on the same day!

Been hot for this time of year - high 70s/low 80s.  Aspen are leafed out. Pines and firs are in full pollen mode.  You can see the pollen as it blows across the trails, roads - even when in the forest. It's all a pretty landscape, though. Strange as it sounds, we'll drop below freezing Monday night. Maybe even Tuesday night.  We're told we'll be back to normal by late next week.

For those of you that haven't heard, the Teton Pass had a big collapse Friday night, the 7th of June. the road had started to develop major cracks a couple of days earlier and was temporarily closed to fix those. A day or so later, a mudslide closed the pass. The full collapse came a day later. After a late snow event the last part of May, the hot temps created a rapid snow melt that took out the pass. The biggest impact is the extra long commute it created for a lot of Jackson workers who commute from western Idaho. A temp road is expected over the next few weeks with a full repair late this year.

In other news, as I've mentioned in previous posts our truck likes to throw the check engine light almost every year we arrive in Jackson Hole. Turns out this one was persistent. Turns out that the mass air sensor was out of tolerance. A reprogram of the PCM seems to be the solution.  Check engine light hasn't returned since, and it's had plenty of time to do so. We think it'll hold.

Anyway, that catches you up with us.  Thanks for dropping by and checking on us. We'll post more later, David