High Summer on Oxbow Bend
At the time, this was just another photograph, in early-mid afternoon on the last day of a two-week road trip. I didn't realise just how iconic this location/view is. It was the only shot I took here and is scanned from a negative.
For the uninitiated, like me at that time, Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park is the most photographed place in the entire park. The image of the Snake River with Mount Moran's reflection is iconic and has been photographed millions of times!
Mount Moran (3,842m) is named for Thomas Moran, an American western frontier landscape artist. Mount Moran dominates the northern section of the Teton Range rising 1,800m above Jackson Lake. Several active glaciers exist on the mountain with Skillet Glacier plainly visible on the monolithic east face.
Mount Moran is a massive and impressive mountain which would make it attractive to mountaineers. However, the comparative difficulty of the approach to the climbs makes it a much less popular climb than other peaks to the south.
High Summer on Oxbow Bend
At the time, this was just another photograph, in early-mid afternoon on the last day of a two-week road trip. I didn't realise just how iconic this location/view is. It was the only shot I took here and is scanned from a negative.
For the uninitiated, like me at that time, Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park is the most photographed place in the entire park. The image of the Snake River with Mount Moran's reflection is iconic and has been photographed millions of times!
Mount Moran (3,842m) is named for Thomas Moran, an American western frontier landscape artist. Mount Moran dominates the northern section of the Teton Range rising 1,800m above Jackson Lake. Several active glaciers exist on the mountain with Skillet Glacier plainly visible on the monolithic east face.
Mount Moran is a massive and impressive mountain which would make it attractive to mountaineers. However, the comparative difficulty of the approach to the climbs makes it a much less popular climb than other peaks to the south.