On Saturday, I went for a drive with my Dad and husband south of East Fork Reservoir up the Carp Ridge Road up to the Maloney Basin trailhead (now labeled Co Rd 5141 — why oh why must we replace names with numbers — but that’s another story). The area has enjoyed plentiful rainfall this [...]
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I spent last weekend in Glacier (July 24-25, 2010). While I would have wished for some clouds to break the monotonous blue sky and add a bit of interest (trust a photographer to whine about clear blue skies!), it was, nonetheless, a glorious weekend. Because all of the campgrounds in Glacier were full, I accepted [...]
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“the quawmash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water.” So said Captain Meriwether Lewis on June 12, 1806. He also noted that “Musquetoes our [...]
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The last half day of my solo camping trip in Yellowstone National Park came too soon. I was still having fun! After putting away the tent, etc., I, like the previous 3 mornings, headed for the Swan Lake area hoping, once again, to see the mama griz with four cubs. I spotted a familiar vehicle [...]
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On the third day of my solo camping trip to Yellowstone I got a good dose of the ‘sunshine vitamin’ despite a frosty start. It was 24 degrees Fahrenheit as I rolled out of camp at 6:30 and the world was glazed with frost. It was a bright and beautiful morning. I hadn’t taken the [...]
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Day 2 of my 4 day solo camping trip to Yellowstone… I started out by re-tracing my path of the day before to a certain extent to hit the bear likely hotspots with a mid-morning detour stop on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone to walk the trail out to Red [...]
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Friday night through Tuesday evening I enjoyed my first solo camping trip to Yellowstone National Park. I had a wonderful time! I drove through the Roosevelt Arch around 10:00 on Friday night, headed for the Indian Creek Campground, having received a kind and well-timed message from Dave Shumway that there were open campsites to be [...]
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In the blue corner, weighing in at approximately 1500 pounds, “The Big Dude.” In the red corner, weighing in at approximately 12 pounds, “Little Red.” I was enjoying a close encounter with “The Big Dude,” trying to keep the legal (by Yellowstone regulation) 25 yards between us (but no more), backpedaling when he closed the [...]
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On Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, I suggested that since the kids’ trip to Old Faithful with Mom and Laura the previous day had been aborted due to snow/slush/rain, I’d take the kids and make it a hydrothermal feature day including West Thumb, Old Faithful, Black Sand Basin and Firehole Lake Drive. I also planned [...]
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The first day of our Memorial Day weekend in Yellowstone National Park was for the birds — at least for Dad and me (Mom, Laura and the kids and Larry & Cindy had a different day). We headed south from Mammoth in hopes of seeing the grizzly sow with 4 cubs in the Swan Lake [...]
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