Bannock with Aunt Amy

Amy, Brady and Diane arrived on Friday evening (8/1).  Amy and Diane were heading to Pinedale for a backpacking trip in the Wind River Mts and stopped for a visit on the way.  Amy had expressed an interest in doing some kind of hike on Saturday, so we came up with a few options.  On Friday evening, we all agreed that Bannock was a fairly family friendly hike that would give great views and not tax anyone too heavily.  We were also swayed by the fact that we could start Bannock later than any other hike as it was the shortest option (not to mention that the option of the chairlift down sounded good!).  The added benefit was that Margaret wanted to join!

So Amy, Diane, Connor, Margaret and I enjoyed a beautiful hike up Bannock.  Margaret did awesome!  She's ready for more, but we'll leave it that way for now.  That way, next summer hopefully she'll be anxious to hike again.  We had a little lunch at the lookout, then continued up to the "naturalist cabin" (ski patrol cabin in the winter).  We got some mini lessons on the geology and wildlife in the Tetons -- Amy and Connor were particularly riveted!  It was very cool to learn more about this region.  We hiked up to the peak behind the cabin and walked out to look at the trail to Mary's saddle.  After discussing options of some going on and some heading down, we all decided to take the chair down to meet Brady and Corbin at the pool.  Corbin had biked Lightning Ridge.