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Yellowstone National Park Day 10: One out of Six Ain’t Bad?
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Task #1 – Lewis Channel Hike (Failure) The Lewis Channel Hike runs beside Lewis Lake. The first 2 1/2 miles was open for hiking but had a warning for snow covered trail. We weren’t worried about the snow and have hiked on snow before. The second half of the…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 9
Yellowstone National Park, May 2025 Since we didn’t get back to the trailer until 10 pm last night and wrote the blogs for Day 8 until after midnight, we didn’t get up until late. We planned on having a more relaxing day. Today we focused on going to West Thumb to walk the boardwalk around…
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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
Yellowstone National Park, May 2025 Today we tried to get out a little earlier, but we were unsuccessful. This was mostly because I couldn’t find my keys, and it took a while to locate them. Once we did get out, our first stop was to hike Storm Point. My main purpose was to see 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 7
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Today’s plan was to get things done around the trailer and visit the Fishing Bridge Visitor Center. The fishing Bridge Visitor Center was built in 1930 / 1931. The structure helped define what was called the National Park Service Rustic style. This building design was then used in other…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 5
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Today was a beautiful day to wake up in Yellowstone. The temperature was 28 degrees or less last night, but it increased to 32 degrees by 8 am. Yeah!! We did the typical morning breakfast – pancakes, eggs and bacon (just had to make your mouth water :-). Then,…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 4
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 (Note: The animal pictures are set up as links to the pictures because you need to zoom in to see the details. This requires the back button to return to the page. The other pictures are embedded. Just click on them to return to the page.) This morning started…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 3
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 We’ve had quite an experience between last night and today. Unfortunately, it does not involve wild animals. Last night, the surge protector turned off our electricity twice due to low power. We decided to talk to the folks in the office who said it was because too much power…
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Bighorn National Forest: Part 1
Bighorn National Forest, WY, May 2025 At a population of 4,400, Buffalo is one of the largest cities we have stayed in this year. Okay, that is stretching it a bit. We did stay in Denver, CO and just south of Oklahoma City, OK, which are large cities. We have also stayed in several smaller…