Stories from someone just fumbling through
Thankfully, it was an easy hike in to Tanger Lake. It’s just outside of the south entrance to the Park and the trail begins just behind a horse corral at the South Entrance Park Ranger Station. There’s no way we would have found the trail had I not remembered surveying this site in 2006--it’s… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 24th, 2013
Elephant Back…again. Most of the day was spent retyping my journal into my laptop so I can eventually share it with the world…if I can ever get this elusive internet that I’ve been hearing so much about. Just as I was going to throw in the towel on the day and go back to bed,… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 23rd, 2013
West Yellowstone…again. Today was a bit of a flop. The idea was to head to West Yellowstone early so that I could hit the library and use the internet for several hours. But it didn’t work out that way. Since it was Saturday, the library closed at 2 pm…which I didn’t realize until I… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 22nd, 2013
I spent most of my birthday traveling to and from the little town of West Yellowstone, Montana. It’s a scenic two-hour drive, each way, from the dorm. West Yellowstone is the absolute epitome of a tourist town and I love it. It’s only several streets long and wide, each store sells Yellowstone paraphernalia (Deb calls… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 21st, 2013
I spent most of the day puttering around the dorm trying to get my joints to re-lubricate themselves and my blisters to pop. Surprisingly, Andrew looked far better than I. He was up, bright and early, to drive back home to Casper to see his wife. I don’t envy him, especially in his condition. That’s… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 20th, 2013
Welcome to my 16-hour day from both heaven and hell: Nez Perce starting from the west side of the Mary Mountain trail. Andrew and I woke up at 5 am to meet the GRYN crew at the trail head by 7 am. The dorm is almost in the center of Yellowstone, between Fishing Bridge and… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 19th, 2013
If you ever get the chance to visit Yellowstone, you have to take the winding ride from Dunraven Pass to Mount Washburn to Tower to the Lamar Valley. When I wasn’t white-knuckling it in the back of Deb’s car --praying her sight-seeing gaze didn’t stray too far, too long and send us toppling off… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 18th, 2013
Success, to me, is almost too vague of a word to have any real definitive meaning or value without having any clear metrics in place for measuring it. Just a few days ago I was enjoying dinner with a forest ecologist and a sociologist (no, this is not the set-up for a joke). The conversation… Continue reading The Measure of Success
Today is a combined field effort with the GRYN crew consisting of three young twenty year-old male whipper-snappers (a nursing student, a GIS student and a geology student) and Andy, who is the head-honcho of the entire amphibian monitoring project this year. It was a training day for them and a field data collection… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 17th, 2013
In previous blog posts I’ve mentioned having weird dreams but this morning takes the cake! Have you ever heard your name being called in the middle of the night or right when you are dozing off? I think it’s fairly common and experts say it’s a hallucination of a sleepy mind. I woke up at… Continue reading Yellowstone: June 16th, 2013
The Unmaker 