EddieT: First Week of Work (if you want to call it that)

Well, have finished my first week of work (3 days) and am getting back into it; telling people where to go, what to see, where to eat, where to stay, selling park passes and other licenses. It's really a lot of fun meeting and talking to people from all over the world. One of my co-workers suggested I use one of our park highlight sheets to reduce the time I have to talk to people. I'll give it to them now, but only after I've told them everything on the sheet. It's more fun that way. It's amazing at how many foreigners are here this time of year and the length of some of their vacations. Most of the foreigners we see in the Visitor's Center are European.

It's still cold up here and activities in the park have really been delayed. Teton National Park had over 700 inches of snow this year, over 200 inches above normal. You can really tell it. All of the snow does add another view of the beauty up here. Had a picture of a frozen Jenny Lake in the last blog. Made a short trip into the park today and the lakes have really thawed. Today's picture of Jenny Lake shows only a few floating chunks of ice. Evidently wind is more of a factor in the melt than the temperature. Even though the lakes are thawing, there is still a lot of snow around and campground and hiking trail openings have been delayed.

Went back into the park today to have lunch at the Jackson Lake Lodge. Had snow flurries most of the way up and back. Didn't have a good few of the mountains as can be seen in the Jenny Lake picture below, but it was still beautiful.