Tag: cat

  • Waterfowl Game Production Area

    Lake Vermillion Recreation Area, SD, August 2025 South Dakota has a lot of “Waterfowl Production Areas” that are managed by the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department. The website indicates that the Production areas have hiking. Based on what we saw, you can hike in the areas but there are no designated trails. I…

  • Southeast Yellowstone Day 41: Part 2

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This is the first of the three days of Yellowstone pictures that have not been posted. This was two days before the Sunday that we left the park. In the morning, we got up early to see the wolves. (We posted these pictures and videos here.) Some of us…

  • Thunder Cats

    Custer State Park, WY, July 2025 We have been very fortunately this year to with very few thunderstorms. In Yellowstone, we had more snow than rain. We did have a little rain in 7th Ranch Campground in Wyoming but nothing of major note. That all ended in Custer State Park. We had a thunder and…

  • Protection from the Storm?

    Garryowen, MT, July 2025 An afternoon storm with chance of high winds and 1/2 inch hail popped up. The skies all of a sudden turned dark with major wind gust rocked the trailer. Not knowing if Montana is at higher risk for Tornados, we pulled out the cat carriers just in case we needed to…

  • Relaxing during the Heat Wave

    7th Ranch RV Camp, MT, July 2025 When we were Yellowstone, the hottest day was maybe 80 F and that was probably only 1 day. Most nights were in the 30s or less. We did have a few in the 40s. Ever since then, the temperature has been a minimum of 80s during the day…

  • 7th Ranch RV Camp Day 1 Sunset

    7th Ranch RV Camp, Gerryowen, MT, July 2025 We left Yellowstone National Park a couple days ago. The exit route we took went through the North Entrance to Gardner, MT. This route has a lot of switchbacks, turns and goes down around 2,000 feet in elevation. Needless to say, both cats got sick in the…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 36

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 You always hear about snow in the middle of the summer in Yellowstone National Park. Today, John and I go to experience the mid-summer snow fall. Because of the snow, we decided to stay inside and not travel around. Especially since we are seeing a lot of California and…

  • Happy Father’s Day!

    June 15, 2025 I know every kid says this, but you are the best Dad!! Thanks for always believing in us. We may not have enjoyed all the adventures we had as a kid. We did enjoy watching our pregnant aunt risk her life chasing a bear to get a picture of it three mountains…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 23

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 We planned to do nothing today because John had to make a lot of calls. He finished them earlier than expected, so we decided to look for owls in the evening. Kate turned towards what she thought was the east entrance, but we ended up at LeHardy Rapids. This…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 21

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 John says that I have been going going going trying to see everything at once and that he needs rest day. I worked really hard and tried to give John a partial day off. The day started off with the hopes of getting up at 5:30 am to search…