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Bighorn National Forest (North)
Burgess Junction, WY, July 2025 We stayed at Garryowen, MT because Kate wanted to drive the Northern Route through Bighorn National Forest on Route 14. Route 14 through the forest is almost 60 miles south of Garryowen and about 35 miles long. In total, it is about 2 hours of driving, each way, due to…
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Angry Birds at 7th Ranch
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 John has been trying to test the Canon R7 against the Canon T7i, so he went back out after the storm to take more pictures of the angry baby bird. He got further proof of this birds utter lack of survival instinct because it was now being angry in the middle…
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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 So we are staying in the middle of nowhere, Montana near a (small? tiny? puny?) private town name Garryowen. Wikipedia and the 2010 Census claim that the population is 2. The building in town is a combination of the city hall, museum, and convenience store. We have not been there, so…
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Hayden Valley Day 35: Part 1
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 Back to the inadequate pictures… These were the first test pictures of the day, after John realized the Canon R7 was not performing as well as he expected. John believes that the only change for these pictures was using the smaller “Spot Auto-focus” instead of the “Single Point Auto-focus”.…
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Hayden Valley Day 41
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 After Kate got the spotting scope, we went to Hayden Valley to watch wolves around 8 am. We never saw any, so we went on to do other things. We wanted to see the wolves with Kate’s spotting scope and John’s 800mm lens before we left. The weather forecast…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 37
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This was a very long day. We left at 8 am and did not make it back home until after 8 pm. We immediately grabbed our shower gear and left again. Finally, we were back in the trailer for the night around 9 pm which would 10 pm central…
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Gull Point Drive Day 39: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 It seems like any edge of Yellowstone Lake that is not perfectly round has a name. If the lake bumps out, it is a bay. If the land bumps out, it is a point. Just past Bridge Bay Campground is a two mile stretch of road called Gull Point…
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Grand Prismatic Spring Day 39
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 The plan for today was to get up at 7 am, leave by 8am, and arrive at the Steel Bridge Parking at about 9 am to hike to the Grand Prismatic Spring Overlook and Fairy Falls. John stayed up until about 1 am culling and processing photos and writing…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 38
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 Yes, we can count; we skipped over day 37. John did some reading on the Canon R7 to change settings to improve the focus. There are three shutter settings – mechanical, electronic first curtain, and electronic. That list goes from slowest to fastest, noisiest to quietest, and most vibration…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 35: Part 3
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This was attempt number two to get decent pictures. The day was still sunny, so the light was decent for pictures on the water. At this point, John realized that the “One-Point Auto-Focus” was not one point. He changed up some of the configurations to turn animal tracking on…