For the many that do not know, Jackson Hole is a small town in Wyoming not far from Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park. It is quite a beautiful place to go during the summer, just take a drive through Yellowstone and take its south exit to Grand Teton and Jackson Hole.
The last time I visited Jackson Hole was in 2011 when we decided to take an alternate route home from Yellowstone. I remember my legs were numb and asleep by the time we stopped in Grand Teton just so our friends could use the restroom. There wasn’t much to see in Grand Teton but the landscape was breath-taking. The cool thing is that even in July, there was still snow.
It was pass noon when we finally entered Jackson Hole’s town limit and frankly, we were hungry. So we parked the car and walked around searching for a restaurant. The first place we came across was a tavern. It was the first time any of us have seen the word on a sign. “What is a tavern?” My mom asked me.
Having seen western movies, I had a hunch that a tavern is a bar. “It’s a bar. I don’t think there’s any to eat there.” I warned them.
We glanced around the square, there wasn’t a single fast food restaurant in sight or any other restaurant for that matter. “Do we have a choice? Anything’s better than nothing.” My mom snapped. So in we went. The waitress saw the five of us walk in, at first I thought she’d be puzzled but she led us passed the men playing pool and upstairs. “Booth or table?” She had asked as we reached the landing.
“Table,” My mom had said too soon because the waitress led us to some pretty tall tables. The chairs were so high that I felt like I had to climb a ladder just to get on.
The waitress handed us menus. I gave it a gander and realized I was right about this. There wasn’t much to eat except cheese sandwiches stuffed with various meats and buffalo wings.
Since I have no tolerance to spicy food, I ordered some kind of grilled cheese sandwich while the rest of them ordered a pile of Buffalo wings. By the end of lunch and they cleaned the plate of wings, they told me it was the best buffalo wings they’ve ever had. I’m not sure though, it was too spicy for me to tell.
After that, we strolled around the town square, browse the shops to work off the calories from our lunch before we hop back into the car. As we made our way back to car, we each snapped a picture of the famous antler arch. The arch is made of real antlers. Just think of how many deer, moose, and whatever animals whose antlers had been chopped off. Great, now I feel bad for those animals.
…and that was our trip. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day. 🙂
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I didn’t know. Those pictures are wonderful though.
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I spent an afternoon in Jackson Hole and was a bit freaked out by the antler arches too. Have you been to the little nature center between the town and the Grand Tetons park? We learned all about the migratory habits of the deer. It was fascinating.
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No, we didn’t stop at the nature center. We just went straight to Jackson Hole. The trip was too rushed, I think. I will have to make another trip someday and really take in everything.
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Don’t feel bad for the animals. Certainly some of these antlers came off animals who’d be killed, but deer lose their antlers every year anyway. Antlers are unique to cervids and found mostly on males: only caribou and reindeer have antlers on the females, and these are normally smaller than those of the males. Nevertheless, fertile does from other species of deer have the capacity to produce antlers on occasion, usually due to increased testosterone levels.[61] Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone.[62] Antlers are considered one of the most exaggerated cases of male secondary sexual traits in the animal kingdom,[63] and grow faster than any other mammal bone.[64] Growth occurs at the tip, and is initially cartilage, which is mineralized to become bone. Once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler’s bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler. In most cases, the bone at the base is destroyed by osteoclasts and the antlers fall off at some point.[62] As a result of their fast growth rate, antlers are considered a handicap since there is an incredible nutritional demand on deer to re-grow antlers annually, and thus can be honest signals of metabolic efficiency and food gathering capability.[65]
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