-
Yellowstone National Park Day 22
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 There are about 9 packs in Yellowstone National Park with a total of over 100 wolves. One pack is about 1.5 hours away from Fishing Bridge in Lamar Valley. Fortunately, there is also pack in the northern part of Hayden Valley that has between seven and nine pups. 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…
-
Yellowstone National Park Day 19
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 The main goal of today was to hike Artist Point, Point Sublime and Lily Pad Lake which is located in the Canyon Village area. Artist Point is on a wide paved path attached to a large parking lot on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon (of Yellowstone). It…
-
Yellowstone National Park Day 17: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 The first part of Day 17 had all of John’s professional looking pictures and videos. Part 2 is the informal selfie along with things I couldn’t resist taking a picture of on my cell phone. The morning started out by seeing a mule deer in the campground. Mule deer…
-
Yellowstone National Park Day 18
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 In Yellowstone, you do not make a run to the border; you make a run to Cody for groceries. Cody is about 75 miles from Fishing Bridge out the east entrance of the park. It is essentially 75 miles of little more than wilderness and a few campgrounds. On…
-
Yellowstone National Park Day 16: Part 2 Norris Geyser Basin
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 The first part of the day was hiking Ice Lake. The second part of the day was visiting Norris Geyser Basin. We thought this was a short walk but it turns out to see everything it’s around a 3 mile walk. The map below is the only map around…
-
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…
-
Yellowstone National Park Day 13
Yellowstone National Park, WY & MT, May 2025 The major goal of today was to drive to West Yellowstone to pick up John’s new Canon SLR camera. It’s an updated version of his camera that has more pixels (mean more detailed pictures), better auto focus(crisper pictures), and can record video. The great part of new…
-
Yellowstone National Park Day 12
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 We spent most of the morning and afternoon doing needed chores like figuring out health insurance, purchasing travel insurance for states where our health insurance does not cover us, etc. We ended up going on sunset hike hoping to see animals that are most active in the evening like…
-
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…