Shadow Mountain Tetons
We had our first boondocking stop, three days at Shadow Mountain in the Tetons NF. The sites are spectacular you are looking right at the mountains over that grassland strip. Sunset over the peaks eac...
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Those antelope sure are skittish -- we saw one about nine years ago on Antelope Flat, and then on our most recent trip we didn't. This is the guy who was posing for us in front of the mountains:
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A friend of mine calls them "speed goats." He says that they are much faster than they need to be to outrun coyotes and wolves because they evolved to escape from saber toothed tigers. The tigers are gone, but the antelope are still running at 60 mph, because they can!
By the way, we saw herds of pronghorns in the hills north of Stanley, Idaho -- they were all over the place.
Agesilaus, how were the views of the Tetons from the Shadow Mountain boondocking sites?
Click For Full-Size Image.A friend of mine calls them "speed goats." He says that they are much faster than they need to be to outrun coyotes and wolves because they evolved to escape from saber toothed tigers. The tigers are gone, but the antelope are still running at 60 mph, because they can!
By the way, we saw herds of pronghorns in the hills north of Stanley, Idaho -- they were all over the place.
Agesilaus, how were the views of the Tetons from the Shadow Mountain boondocking sites?
