Extra pic of Surprise Lake

Surprise Lake in Teton National Park

I am glad this picture of Surprise Lake in Teton NP popped up in my last roll of film because it is a useful guide for describing the epicness of the vista.  We had just hiked five miles up to the thing with the last half mile being through the snow.  The saddle in the snow is actually a snow bridge over a waterfall that is the birth of a stream down the mountainside.  It drops into a canyon that opens out into Jackson Hole.  You can stand directly over the shiny white water as it spills out of the frozen-over, glacially-deposited lake.  You can also climb out on fallen trees and rock ledges to look directly over the water as well.  Not only is the beauty of the scene is too intricate to corral with words, this was also one of those sights that could barely be enveloped by the frame of a slide of film.  This sight could never be reached by a car.