Back in 2025, a friend was asking for some photos from a previous trip up the Grand. We haven't found his photos but we found some photos from two trips in 2009 which somehow got saved. We decided to republish this trip.
We were using a Samsung pocket camera with a small zoom. These photos have been resized for the blog and have lost some clarity in the process but they're some of the better ones from that time.
The majority of our older photos were lost or trashed or crashed as we transitioned between several fee-based hosting platforms in the early 2000s before settling on the free Blogger platform which allowed us to spend less time coding (and not pay for a domain name and hosting services). Along the way, a few hard drives crashed. Many backup CDs were tossed. Many photos weren't very good.
We still have about 12 hard drives with images—several pulled out of busted laptops and desktops. The rest are external drives. Not all appear to be working but they might recover with the right hardware. Hasn't really been a priority and probably never will be. More than likely, they will also get tossed.
We often took over 500 photos on each trip. A few went over 700. This trip resulted in 509 pictures. About 70 are shared below.
On this day, we had the mountain to ourselves while climbing above the Central Rib. Two descending climbers passed us by the Chockstone Chimney area and that was it.
Unfortunately, these photos are not in any particular order due to the loss of some editing software with yet another laptop....
View to the east from summit
Looking up toward Sargent's Chimney
Scramble off of Catwalk toward Owen Rappel on the way to Sargent's Chimney
Owen Chimney
View into Vahalla and Cascade Canyon 
Middle Teton above Lower Saddle
View toward "backside" of the Needle; Chockstone Chimney, Eye of the Needle, Briggs' Slab
Climbers below the Eye of the Needle's Tunnel
Another Middle Teton pic
View toward the Upper Saddle from Lower. The Black Dike at the north end of the saddle.
Teton's Shadow heading for Shadow Mountain
Middle Teton rising above the Meadows in Garnet Canyon
Looking toward the South Fork of Garnet Canyon
Looking back down at the Moraines by the Middle Teton Glacier. View from the Lower Saddle.
View East from Lower Saddle
Eye of the Needle's tunnel
Looking back toward the tunnel from the Briggs' Slab area, (Belly-Roll Almost near bottom left of photo).
Teewinot, Jenny Lake, String Lake, Leigh Lake, Jackson Lake
View southish from summit toward Middle Teton, etc
Delta Lake far left, Surprise & Amphitheater lakes in snow, Bradley Lake at valley floor
"Bathtub" along the Hidden Exit variation, a exit out of the middle of Sargent's Chimney.
The Enclosure, a spur "peak" off the Upper Saddle. 2nd highest point in the range but not a peak.
Catwalk
Looking down from just inside the 2nd Entrance of the Double Chimney. All those biigger loose rocks are gone these days. 
Ledge between the Belly Roll and the Crawl
Rosenberg Variation by Black Rock Chimney
Saddle from afar
Black bear cub. Mom will probably send it up a tree if the sow is uncertain about your intentions. The sow was hiding at the bottom of the tree.
Summit monument