Grand Teton

Tomorrow is our last day at Jenny Lake Lodge here in Grand Teton National Park. It's an inspiring landscape of towering peaks and extensive river flats along the Snake River in Wyoming, the kind of place poetic cowboys write songs about.

We've been getting up early each morning to catch the sunrise on the Teton mountain range. The image above is from a place called Mormon Row. They say this is possibly the most photographed barn in America: a least a dozen other photographers were there with me at 5:30 AM to catch the dawn light!

One of the benefits of getting up early is the chance to see some wildlife in action. We noticed a herd of elk that seemed to be moving erratically in a tight pack. To our amazement we saw through binoculars that it was a pack of wolves trying to separate a calf from the herd! In this enlarged photo you can just make out three wolves circling the elk. This was a rare sight indeed, as some rangers have never even seen a wolf in Grand Teton NP.