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Resting day at Hot Sulfur Springs.
Going to the Rocky Mountain National Park makes an 800 km detour.
After asking ourselves if it was really worth it, we decide to stick to our previous plan and go there.
It takes us two days to cross the desertic and mountainy Wyoming.
Temperatures are back to normal and overtake the 30°. We love that !
(We had very cold night those last days : minus 1°)
Arrived at destination, we notice that one of the tyre is loosing air.
Today is saturday and it's 5 PM. All the tyre workshops are closed...
We finally find one at Walmart supermarket.
They only can repair the tyre , but let us take the wheel out of the camper and put it back.
3.5 T. is very heavy for our little jack, but with the kindness of the employees, we finally manage.
Salt Lake City
We cross the winding and luxuriant Logan Canyon Road to join Salt Lake City.
We take advantage of this big city to have the oil of the camper changed and to go to the hairdresser.
We then have a walk downtown the City of the Mormons. We find it austere and pretty dead. It's not our cup of tea.
We drive trhough the south part of the national Park, taking the Teton Park Road up to Jackson Hole.
Because there's a light mist, we cant appreciate the view points on the high summist at their best.
We then head south.
The Rocky Mountain National Park
The Rocky montain N.P. is situated in the central part orf the rocky mountains whose highest peak reaches 4 364 m.
There you find sparkling lakes, glacial valleys and high summits.
4th most visited National Park of the USA, we choose to visit it... on a sunday...
We're very surprised to see so many tourists and so many cars joining us on the Trail Ridge Road, the highest road in the States. Our camper can now be on Guinness Record book : it climbed up to 3 995 m. !
The road is beautifull, but the parking lots at the different view points are so small that we have to fight to find a place.
Anyway, we manage to stop wherever we wanted and can climb on to the most beautifull headlands to enjoy superb views of the summits.
The way down to the valley offers us the yellow, brown and red colors of autumn trees although wer're just mid-september.
Grand Teton National Park
We leave Yellowstone N.P. with hundreds of pictures sealed in our minds, direction Grand Teton N.P.
Situated south of its neigbhour, it lays in the Snake River Valley at the foot of Grand Teton summit.
In the old days, it was populated by indian tribes who used to come in summer for hunting.
The park was discovered by John Colter.
In 1929 Rockfeller took the initiative of officially creating the park.
We spent the afternoon there, hiking for 3 hours amid fjords, lakes and forests.
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