A view to behold Grand Tetons travel story Express-News Copyright 2013 Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 7:14 am, Friday, April 26, 2013 Swing open the front door and there stand some of the most beautiful mountains you will ever see: the soaring, jagged Grand Tetons, sprouting like teeth from the earth as if to take a bite out of the heavens. The cabin's most crucial amenity is the pair of wood rocking chairs on the slab out front, and the smartest thing a visitor can do is give them a good rocking. Jenny Lake Lodge is one of the few four-diamond hotels (as designated by AAA) housed in a national park (others are in Death Valley and Yosemite), and for that four-diamond cost, the service was, as it should be, impeccable. The manager's reception, including Champagne and hors d'oeuvres, would begin at 5 that night. The path traced the edge of the broad, glassy water, afternoon sunlight twinkling off its face and thick stands of pines hugging its shores. On the quiet shores of Jenny Lake, you not only stand toe to toe with that perfection, you also stand in the heart of the 310,000-acre park; those peaks, and the lakes below, including Jenny, were the first part of the Tetons set aside for preservation by Congress in 1929. After a guided 90-minute horseback ride atop Victor — because that also is included with a Jenny Lake Lodge stay — a staff member drove me in a black Cadillac Escalade to a boat launch from which I would be carried across the lake to one of the park's most-trafficked trails: the steep half-mile climb to Inspiration Point. [...] if you keep walking, you wind deeper into the heart of the Tetons, on the twisting path through Cascade Canyon, where those craggy peaks are demystified a bit; they don't just shoot up into the sky, of course; they bleed into each other and slope down to the earth.