we did not camp Grand Teton NP in the fall, but did volunteer there for the entire season in 2011. We worked at the visitors center at Flagg Ranch, and lived in our camper at Coulter Bay. That has to be our favorite "camping" trip ever.

Let me make one comment about your photo of Mt. Moran. The pegmatite and limestone cap are to the right of the "skillet" in your photo...I believe your photo is inverted. The Pegmatyte (the dark nearly verticle stripe) that runs up to the top of the peak is a different kind of rock that filled a crack in the base rock while the mountain was still far below the surface, and the darker rock was molten. The tiny white line that touches the Pegmatyte at the top on the left is limestone that was above the rock of the mountain before it was lifted above the ground, and has not yet abraded away.

The skillet is a patch of snow that usually does not melt in summer. I called it a guitar, because skillets are round, and its not. The rangers did not like me to do that, but I took a "volunteers privilege" and did it anyway....

Your photo brought back a summers worth of wnderful memories...Thank you.

Bill