Grasshopper Glacier hike

Jolie, me and Polgara went to the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness  (near the northeast corner of Yellowstone NP) to hike up to Grasshopper Glacier. It is called grasshopper glacier because a long time ago a swarm of grasshoppers got caught up in a storm and wound up encased in the snow.

The wildflowers were fantastic in late July at this elevation around 9,000'. Fuchsia paintbrush and lupine in this picture

More paintbrush below the outlet of Goose Lake

We did make it to the glacier on this nice day. However, the grasshoppers were about another half mile away and we had already walked over 9 miles, so we enjoyed lunch here and headed back down.

After jolie went home I stuck around the area to do some sampling for work. I got this shot one morning near our camp of Wolverine Peak in the Stillwater basin.