Monday, June 17
Super cold and windy and overcast. We woke up to 43 degrees and never left the 50s. Meanwhile it is in the 90s back home in their heat dome.
First stop was the remote Bruneau Sand Dunes state park, ranked the best state park in Idaho. The park boasts the tallest single structured sand dune in North America at 470 ft above the desert floor. Good for a quick photo stop but with the rain and clouds and wind it was not a long stay.
Back on the road again to Twin Falls ID and the Perrine Bridge over the Snake River, a four-lane truss bridge near Shoshone Falls. Although there was more water flow last time I was here, the falls are still well worth the $5 admission fee.
Then it was a five-hour drive from there to Grand Teton national park. Again, the pass gods were against us (as in Tioga Pass in Yosemite and also in Lassen and the recent snow in Banff) as there was a massive cave in on the Teton Pass earlier this year which caused traffic to be rerouted nearly 100 miles. Anyway, it was still cold and overcast so it didn’t matter much how long it took to get there. We found a decent boondocking high on a hill in the Bridget-Teton National Forest (the one and same forest where Gabby Petito the young vanlifer who was found dead here the other year) overlooking the entire Teton range. Hoping it clears for sunset or at least looks good in the morning since the “sun will come out tomorrow” according to my WeatherBug app.
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