Sheila and Harry posing on a rock just before the Bitch Creek Narrows on our way to Hidden Corral Basin
two choices Hidden Lake or Hidden
Corral and we choose the latter. Less
than a mile in we entered the Jedediah Smith Wilderness. We made a
crossing of Bitch Creek (yes that is
truly the name) after 1.7 miles and
followed along beside its North fork
the rest of the day. We traversed a
beautiful section of trail known as
the Bitch Creek Narrows where the
trail narrows, becomes rocky, and
Bitch Creek is cascading down small
falls just below the trail. Lunch was
just beyond at the eight mile marker
which was Hidden Corral Basin. It
was a beautiful meadow surrounded by mountains on all sides. This
basin is rich in old western history
as the horse rustlers would drive
their stolen horses into the basin,
rebrand them, and once the branding marks were healed drive them
over the Tetons into Wyoming and
sell them. Our ride was complet-
ed with a storm brewing over the
mountains causing thunder to echo
up the drainages between them. We
were lucky and only encountered a
few drops of rain in the eight miles
back to the trailhead.
For our second day of riding we
chose to explore one of our nations
national parks, Grand Teton National Park. After paying our entrance
fee we headed to the Slide Lake
(Picture to the right) Letting our sure footed Tennessee Walking Horses pick their way through the rocky trail
18 • Walking On