Originally Posted by
colorado_rob
Thanks for sharing your Blog Johnspenn!
The #1 aspect of this event for myself and friends was how incredibly amazing it was, way beyond our expectations. I had anticipated it would be very cool to experience, but was unprepared for the magnitude of the experience. Hard to describe unless you've seen one of these! PLEASE, if you can, put April 8 2024 on your longer-term list of things to do for the next "once in a lifetime" front-row seat for another total eclipse swathing across the USA!
Anyway, we had the good fortune of seeing the 2017 event from just east of the Grand Teton NP, the day after climbing the Grand Teton. Perfect clear skies, a great groups of fellow climbing pals... BUT as mentioned below, the drive home was, er, problematic! We'll do it differently in 2024... just plan on spending another night at/near where you view the eclipse. Not sure what we were thinking trying to drive home right afterwards!
A couple pics attached. I took a hand-held phone video of the Grand Teton range going dark just before totality reached us, didn't work too well because the camera just kept adjusting exposure... Next time I'll figure out a better way. The totality shot worked well though, just handheld, nothing special, 300mm lens on a cheap DSLR (Canon SL1).