Our big event of the day was dinner and a ten mile river float trip down the Snake River.
That didn’t start until 5:00, so we had to fill in the morning with other activities. I’ve always been fond of rocks and there is a neat little rock shop in downtown Driggs. We thought we might find some souvenirs for the grandkids. They had a huge variety of rock items of all sorts. It was fun to look and pick out a few things.
Next, we took a little “car trip” up to the Targhee Ski Resort. The resort is a small ski area on the west side of the Tetons in Idaho about twenty miles from our apartment.
There was a stop along the way for some pictures and a selfie photo op with the Tetons in the background.
Grand Targhee, in the Targhee National Forest was a nice little family oriented ski resort with some interesting parking lot signs.
I’m sure during ski season this place is bustling.
We retuned back to the condo for lunch and to rest up for our big event. We left at 3:00 to give ourselves plenty of time since it was more than an hour away.
We were part of a group of 8 plus our guide,Shawn.
He escorted us by van to the Triangle X private cookout site.
As we got out of the van we were greeted by an American Bald Eagle high in a tree.
It was a very nice setup with a choice of steak or chicken, baked potato, green beans, tossed salad, dinner roll and a chocolate chip cookie.
At dinner we met two of our boat mates, Bob and Kristine.
After dinner we headed down to the Snake River to the rafts to begin our 10 mile float trip.
Our trip companions were a grandfather and grandson from Boston, a couple from Detroit and Kristine and Bob, our “new friends” from New Hampshire and of course, Shawn our guide. After Shawn gave us some safety instructions we boarded our raft and were off.
The River was beautiful and the evening could not have been better.
We were thrilled to see a couple of bald eagles and a eagle nest.
There were several beavers and a beaver lodge.
And we saw some of the beaver’s handiwork.
As the sun disappeared behind the mountains we were treated to some spectacular sunset pictures over the Tetons.
In addition, as the sun went down the deer started to come out.
We saw a couple of fawns and just a few minutes later
we came upon a doe and her fawn
and then a young buck!
No moose or elk, but we were delighted to get to see what we did. It was an extraordinary trip that we’ll not soon forget.
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