Tetons - Badlands of SD

Our next stop was Coulter Bay Campground on the shores of Jackson Lake in the Tetons. The scenery here is spectacular as the valley abuts the Tetons with no foothills in between. The weather was cool and damp with some snow. We visited a couple of our old haunts when we used to ski at Jackson Hole in 1970s. We drove through snow on our way over the pass heading east.  We drove across WY and stopped in the Badlands of SD for a couple of days. 

Entering the Tetons from Yellowstone

Tetons in the clouds

Jenny Lake

One of our old ski hangouts at Jackson Hole

Another hangout from the 70s in Jackson

Snow at Coulter Bay

Tetons

Saying goodbye to the Tetons

Snowing in the mountains in September

Time for the snowplow

We camped in the Badlands NP for a couple of days visiting the Nike missile site - a chilling reminder of how close we came to oblivion during the Cold War.

At the campground in the Badlands

Desolation

Big Horn

Big Horn

Kestrel looking for a lunch of prairie dog

Pronghorn

Sunset in the Badlands of SD

Sunset over the Badlands