At first read of that town you might think it's a bit of a dump... but oh how I was proven wrong.
It's a massive tourist type town like Banff or Whistler... nestled right up against some massive mountains and deep down in some valleys with spectacular views of the surrounding terrain. So great in fact that we saw AirForce 2 there with vice prez Dick Cheney and we were also told that Tiger had recently bought some property as well. It really was quite the place.
Very expensive as well. We stayed in a VERY basic motel and it went for $110/NT US! The whole place was very touristy so that also added to some extra expenses for the trip.
The best thing about this trip was we had 2 aircraft with 2 crews down at the same time. It was a rather large group of ppl that wanted to go and they had us staying there for 2 nights. So we really got to live it up the first night, we actually lived it up far too much... far too much. We went to a couple of different bars, the first of which was a bit of a cowboy bar and had a lot of bikers around! We had a little dinner and 4 rounds of drinks there. Then it was off to wander the town looking for something to do. We found another bar that had a bunch of pool tables. There's where it got out of hand. The pitchers kept coming.. 6 in total! And after a couple of shots it was bad news bears. I'm not sure how we made it back to the hotel, but we did. We were all hurting the next day after a night on the town. It hurt to move up to about 4pm the next day. The other crew got called away to get some extra maintenance done on their aircraft, so they had to fly to Denver the next day for the night... poor bastards, if I had been required to fly it wouldn't have been pretty. We did however find a really good pizza place that was very very busy, it was the perfect thing to be eating after that gongshow of a night.
The rest of the stay was fairly relaxing and uneventful. We just toured around the town and flew back home on Tuesday. A nice little trip. I'm going to attempt to post a couple of pics below.. wish me luck.
and another:
here's one of the town like atmosphere (this is one of the bars we visited that first night:
Friday, August 12, 2005
Ahhhh... Jackson Hole WY
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From the background in those pictures I'd swear you were in the okanagan somewhere...Man I wish I was home right now lying on a beach instead of wearing pants and sweater here in Saskatoon....Oh well only one more day to go....Hey matt you wanna come pick me up so I don't have to fly for 11hrs tonight to get back to YVR?????
hey Craig.. the pics don't do the background justice.. those mountains are HUGE.. somewhere in the vicinity of 13,000 ft tall just a couple miles from the airport (elevation at the airport though is also 6550 ft!)
(You are a geek.) Went to a cowboy bar? You're really a Calgarian now, blasting the country and all and checking out cowboy dives!!!
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