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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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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…
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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…
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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: 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 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
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 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…