shibuisue: Headed towards the Tetons.
shibuisue: Two days of training before the climb just to refresh and learn to work as a team with our Exum guide.
shibuisue: Fun climbing!!!
shibuisue: More training.
shibuisue: Climbing and rappeling some cliffs.
shibuisue: Hidden Falls not far from the local training crag.
shibuisue: Both mornings we took a ferry across Jenny Lake to the local crag, that's our guide in the green.
shibuisue: Art work on the overhead canopy of our ferry courtesy of a hail storm.
shibuisue: Jenny Lake
shibuisue: Topo map of the terrain around Grand Teton
shibuisue: Relief map of the terrain around Grand Teton
shibuisue: Waterfalls on the way up to high camp
shibuisue: Purple monkey flowers along the way
shibuisue: Columbines along the way
shibuisue: View of the gorge we hiked up
shibuisue: Last little bit that guides made us use a rope for
shibuisue: High camp on the saddle at 11,600 feet. I think that's Teepee Pillar in the background.
shibuisue: Home sweet home for one night
shibuisue: 16 of us slept in this shelter. It had a loft. There were several groups climbing, taking different routes. The guides slept outside in tents or between boulders.
shibuisue: Rugged terrain on the saddle
shibuisue: Part of a glacier
shibuisue: Tomorrow"s hike to the Black Wall and beyond. We did most of this before or as the sun was coming up.
shibuisue: Me on the summit of The Grand, 8/29/2017!!!!
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shibuisue: Our guide Max with Exum. He was fantastic!!!
shibuisue: There were a few other people on the summit from another group. We were not alone. Lots of smoke from a nearby forest fire filled the air. One of those lakes is Jenny Lake.
shibuisue: summit marker
shibuisue: Views from the summit
shibuisue: More views
shibuisue: still more