Road Trip, Day 4 - Thu 13 Nov: Jackson Hole, WY

Today was forecasted to be another snowy day, so we decided to check out the town of Jackson, a quaint little modern day cowboy town, which probably completely transforms when the ski season opens. 

Pretty much also our agenda during this trip!

 The day started off with clear skies. And would you know it, the Snake River Brewing Company was only a two block walk from our place.




I didn't realize that the elk bulls shed those massive horns EVERY year and then grow it all back again. Its apparently called elk shedding. And similar to their human counterparts only the males have horns.

An arch of elk horn on the town center

The town is on the doorstep of Grand Teton as well as Yellowstone national park, and of course the Jackson Hole Ski Resort is a few miles drive from there.



If you remove the cars, and replace the tar with dirt roads, this little place can almost still pass as a proper old time cowboy town.

 

Shoppers paradise

The weather forecast was spot on and it started to dump some more fluffy white stuff. Which made the town even prettier. 

 

Of course we also had to visit the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar and sit on its saddle bar stools. According to its website, it "has the best live western music in the Tetons and it remains the number one bar in Jackson Hole. It is a vital part of western Americana, and, is renowned throughout the world as an example of what the wild Wyoming west was, and still is."

We took a drive out to the Jackson Hole ski resort which was not yet open.

The bottom station of the main gondola 

Part of my planning involved getting in touch with the Jackson Hole Free Flight Club, as I was VERY keen to paraglide here in Jackson Hole. But our timing wasn't good given the volatile North American weather conditions . . .

Jackson Hole Paragliding landing patch. I unfortunately do not yet have my snow flying rating!

Jackson Hole by night. Still pretty.

The 'Silver Dollar Bar' - straight from a Louis L'amour novel!