Monthly Archives: November 2017

If I thought it had gotten chilly overnight when I was in Jackson, when I woke up Tuesday morning, it was as though Yellowstone was telling me, “Those wimps down in Jackson don’t know what cold means.” The windows on …

Lone Star – No Show I’d started up the trail at a moderate pace and after a few minutes came to a dividing point. It seemed that the main trail went to the left but I recalled, and spoke aloud, …

At various points as you transit around the Yellowstone NP, you’ll see signs like this one: The signs differ principally in reporting the elevation – which ranges from just under 8,000 feet to nearly 8,400. This continental divide is the …

It had been another chilly night and when I left Jackson Monday morning I thought the gray-white clouds obscuring the top third of the mountains was fog from the condensing dew. I’d learn later that no, it wasn’t only dew, …

Memory, history and healing Construction of the camp at Heart Mountain, (Heart Mountain can’t technically be called an “internment camp” because internment refers to a lawful process for detaining people – particularly resident aliens. The Japanese Americans were not detained …