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Yellowstone National Park Day 31: NSFK
Yellowstone National Park, WY, Jun 2025 Just a warning, this post may be classified as Not Safe For Kids (NSFK) and squeamish people. We are staying in a huge wilderness space, everyone has to eat, and not everyone is a vegetarian. Except for a few of the marmots, John took pictures holding the camera instead…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 30
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 We found out that the Natural Bridge Trail was open. They close it in the spring because Bridge Creek has spawning trout that attract bears. Sadly, this means that we missed the spawning trout. We used the trail at Bridge Bay Campground. The trail starts as packed dirt, but…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 13: Part 3
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 (Note: These images are just click to expand because I am trying to catch up.) After the hiking at Barnes Hole Road, we went Harlequin Lake, which is only a mile and a half from the Madison Visitor Center. On the drive to Harlequin Lake, I figure out that…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 14
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Today’s objective was to sleep in, work on John’s new camera photos, and hike the Lewis Lake Channel Trail to, hopefully, see a loon. The Lewis Lake Channel Trail is the trail we tried to hike on Day 10 but stopped around 0.9 miles in due to the trail…
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Pelican Nature Trail
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Yellowstone National Park Day 2 post had a comment that the Pelican Nature Trail will be written in a separate post. A week or so later, I finally have the time to write the post. I hope you enjoy. The nature trail is only a couple miles past the…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 10: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Day 10: Part 1 – One out of Six Ain’t Bad?, will be posted tomorrow. (Note: The bird was never very close to shore, so all of these images are clickable links. If you click on the image, you can zoom in for as much detail as there is.…
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Devil’s Den Hiking Trail
West Fork, AR, November 2024 One of the first things you will notice (after trees), is the rock formations. At several places along the trail up the hill, there are rocks that look like relief carvings. These are natural formations known as carpet rock, and variants of these are found in parks across Arkansas. The…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 8: Part 2
West Thumb Geyser Basin, WY, May 2025 Kate wanted to take a break after the Storm Point hike to wait for most people to leave the park. After coming back, we received a unannounced visitor … (dun dun DUN!) Kate answered the door, and it was park maintenance. It turns out that the water spigot…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 6
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Today’s plan was simple. John had to do a few quick things in the morning, go on a hike longer than a mile, and visit the Fishing Bridge Visitor Center. We opted for the Howard Eaton trail that was right beside Fishing Bridge, less than a mile from our…
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Brimmers Point
Guernsey State Park, Wyoming, April 2025 The above panorama picture was taken by John at the very top of the bluff. The placard below the steps to the top talked about annually driving a car off and into the reservoir. It’s no longer done but wow what a fall. I wonder how much area had…