Spillway

So to try to salvage the day yesterday, I decided to tag-along with Darren and his friend Jon Long.

Jon's quite the photographer too, so it was like a photo-geek-fest as we headed out to the Teton Dam site with a bag of Circus Animal cookies and a tub full o' Twizzlers. A stop for more sugar as we got Coke's at the local waterin' hole and we were off.

Darren took us to the spillway side of the Teton Dam. The site is pretty dilapidated, no real 'security', but there are a bunch of fences in disrepair. That's not enough to stop three photo-nerds, let alone the troubled angst-filled youth of Rexburg.

The spillway structure itself is pretty impressive. It's not often that you get to just walk around something like this, so we took advantage of it. The walls are of course covered with graffiti. Sex, drugs and alcohol are predictably common themes.

We walked down the spillway, which gets rather steep pretty quickly. The walk back up is pretty dang hard, and you realize how much you were decieved by the gentle curving slope on the way down.

Anyway, some images of the structure, the valley beyond the spillway, and the three tripods, Jon and Darren.