Snake River with the Tetons (drift boat)
— — the boat that keeps the mountain in the window.
Not only on a wall.
“A drift boat on the upper Snake, the Tetons running the western horizon the entire length of the float. The classic stretch leaves Deadman's Bar and lands at Moose, about ten river miles inside Grand Teton National Park. The water carries the Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat, a subspecies found almost nowhere else on earth. The river braids through cottonwoods and willow flats. Moose feed in the shallows. Most boats run with one angler in the bow and an oarsman holding the line. — from the studio
Snake River with the Tetons (drift boat), on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Inside Grand Teton National Park the Snake River runs roughly twenty-seven miles from Jackson Lake Dam south to the park's Moose entrance. The classic drift-boat float is the ten-mile stretch from Deadman's Bar to Moose, with the Cathedral Group — Grand Teton at 13,775 feet, Mount Owen, and Teewinot — holding the western skyline the entire run. The river braids through cottonwood bottoms and willow flats on a broad gravel bed that shifts year to year. The park was established in its current form in 1950 and protects this corridor as a managed river.
Flows are managed by releases from Jackson Lake Dam and typically run 1,500 to 4,000 cubic feet per second through the float season, May through October. The river holds the Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat trout, a subspecies endemic to this drainage and a handful of tributaries. The fishery is catch-and-release for native cutthroat with single barbless hooks during much of the season. Most floats put in at Deadman's Bar and take out at Moose Landing, a run of about ten river miles that takes four to six hours of working water.
All boating inside Grand Teton National Park requires a park boat permit in addition to the standard park entrance fee, currently $35 per vehicle for a seven-day pass. Drift boats are non-motorized and use the developed put-ins at Pacific Creek, Deadman's Bar, and Moose. Licensed guides operate from Jackson and from the park concessioners and run half-day and full-day floats throughout the season. Wildlife viewing is part of the trip — moose in the willows, bald eagles in the cottonwoods, and the occasional bear on a gravel bar.