CAN YOU TOP THIS VIEW ON YOUR COMMUTE TO WORK?

We have about a 20 mile drive each day to the store, our views are spectacular.  The time flies by as we keep a constant vigil for wildlife and enjoy the breathtaking scenery.  Grand Teton is the highest peak (13770 ft. el.) in the park  and is almost completely snow covered now; this view is priceless.  Note the sky is cloudless.   

This is a view of the back of the store with Mount Moran (el. 12605 ft.) in the background.  We have this view every day when we sit at one of the picnic tables in front of the store and enjoy and nice quiet picnic lunch.  Yes, that is snow piled up around the building.  Today the little birds were out in force looking for a handout.

Today was opening day at the Jenny Lake Store, so we became grocery and gift clerks, after a week of unpacking boxes and stocking store items.  We were certainly not swamped with customers, since most of the park facilities are still closed, but we had a steady stream of folks wanting drinks and snacks, souvenir T-shirts, bear spray, warm sweatshirts and jackets, postcards or gifts to take back home to family and friends.  Our cash registers have touch screens and barcode scanners, so it is not hard to operate - just getting used to a new application.    Of course, we learned about cash register money counting and balancing procedures.  A cold beer after a long first day of work sure tasted good!


Bear spray you ask?  Yes, we sell two varieties of bear spray depending on how far you want the canister to shoot, 30 or 50 ft.  We have hiked a lot of the trails in Grand Teton National Park in our four previous visits and have never carried bear spray.  We have seen bear droppings but never a bear.  The advice in all the National Park Service literature is to never get between an adult animal and its young and if you come across a bear, quickly, without running, move up-wind.   This is your Wyoming fact for the day.