Aging Eagle Takes A Hike In Wyoming

The man whose Secret Service code name is Eagle stepped away from his motorcade and handed a park ranger $25 for a Golden Eagle pass, good for one year’s entry to all of the U.S. national parks.

And shortly afterward Sunday, President Clinton and his family were exercising their hiking boots along the shores of Jenny Lake, among the lodgepole pine and Engelman spruce, the transparent water and the trademark views of the Teton spires.

The president celebrated his birthday on Saturday and as the hike began, a reporter called out, “Is it any harder to hike now that you’re 49?”

“Yeah,” the president replied, and for the next several steps feigned fatigue and leaned for support on the shoulder of his wife, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.