Well, it’s official: the seasons have changed in Yellowstone. The interior Yellowstone park roads closed this morning at 8 am, to allow time for snow to accumulate for over snow vehicles. It’s an annual tradition for us to drive the lower loop just before the road...
August for us means a (semi) annual trip backpacking the Beartooths, a high elevation mountainous plateau in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness that sits between Cooke City and Red Lodge, Montana. A glacially carved landscape decorated with 2 billion year-old granite...
Spring is such an exciting time in the park, it is definitely has to rank as one of our favorites! Each day brings something new, from the first bears, to the brilliant flash of gold and blue of meadowlarks and mountain bluebirds. However, with cold and snow that can...
I could not be more happy or content right now, sitting high above the Lamar River. At least that’s what I started to write in my journal, before I turned and noticed a massive bull bison approaching. He was just grazing, and no doubt would have sauntered right...
What is there to do on a gloomy Saturday in April? Go into the park of course! While we were hoping for bears (to no avail), and although much of the Park still looks like winter, we had a great day exploring ephemeral ponds, watching coyotes rascalize, and visiting...
When the old post office in Gardiner was being built, our neighbor found a chipped piece of obsidian in the earth around the site. That piece turned out to be an 11,000 year-old fragment of a projectile point knapped from volcanic glass that mined at Obsidian Cliff,...
