Category: Wyoming

Day 3 Today was a planned off-day, since we didn’t know if our legs would still respond to brain signals after yesterday’s 20-mile hike. Surprisingly we were able to emerge from the tent without the aid of any cranes or forklifts, but we certainly weren’t ready to go on a 72-mile bike ride or anything…

Day 2 Last night the sun painted the sky behind the mountains orange. This morning it painted the mountains themselves in nearly the same color. Quite a place to wake up! In our 2021 visit, we did a hike from Taggart Lake northward largely along the face of the Tetons, ending at Jenny Lake and…

The restaurant at Colter Bay does a breakfast buffet, and we’d obviously be remiss if we didn’t compare the one in our third National Park of the summer to the buffets in the previous two. Well, like the “normal” grocery store here, the restaurant is also surprisingly “normal”. Like, it could be a country-style family…

It’s time to leave Yellowstone, after “only” ten nights in the park (compared to our 24 nights in Glacier National Park). I’m sure that’s still far more time than the average visit to Yellowstone, and more than triples the amount of time I’d spent on my first two Yellowstone visits combined. The Yellowstone road network…

One of Rett’s main goals in the park was to see Old Faithful. I was all for that since I hadn’t seen it in my previous two visits either. The problem is that, despite being in the most-visited area of the park, it’s 20 miles away from the campgrounds on either end of it, and…