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Day 71 - Central Wyoming to Grand Teton

My first stop this morning was to the site of a massive bug attack in the 90s hit movie Starship Troopers. This brutal terrain, nick-named Hells Half Acre, is interesting geologically but is not accessible, hidden behind a tall fence. Since I couldnt hike down I took some pics and drove on to my second destination. Twenty dirt road miles off the highway, Castle Gardens, is another pretty but inaccessible geological feature, known for its pictographs. Accessibility is important to natural sites and we are darn lucky in the US to have so many incredible sites made accessible by paved roads. Castle Gardens was a bit disappointing visually but the pictographs were fun.  My third Central Wyoming stop was Boysen Reservoir, a lake created when the Wind River was damned in our great dam everything period fifty years ago. The lake was peaceful and scenic with the Wind River Mountains in the background, but the Wind River flowing north of the dam was even nicer.    As I continued w...