Stories from someone just fumbling through
Although I enjoy crawdads (or crayfish to us northeasterners), I do NOT enjoy Crawfish Creek. Remember the fire swamp in The Princess Bride? It's just like that. It's fun to watch in a movie but not fun to experience in real life. One minute you're tromping through the forest and the next you're being swallowed whole by thermal, mucky quicksand. For a… Continue reading Yellowstone: Crawfish Creek
Crawfish Creek (I like to call it Mississippi Mud Bug Creek) was another brutal experience. The four mile/ two-hour hike to our wetlands was a nightmare filled with boggy surprises, seeps that will swallow your limbs, thermal areas, stream crossings, hoards of hungry biting flies, blood thirsty mosquitoes, steep mountains, intense heat, huge swaths of… Continue reading Yellowstone: July 2nd, 2013
The Unmaker 