Category Archives: national parks

Otter Family at Heart Lake in Yellowstone

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Monica

Otter family visits our backpacking campsite at Heart Lake in Yellowstone

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Winter Memory

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Monica

Daytime High Arctic ice crusts the inside length of the cabin door. The ancient space heater sputters. We dress quickly in the cold seeking a hot morning meal before venturing into magic, the landscape of Yellowstone – – standing lodgepoles … Continue reading →

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Lost Canyon Adventure

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Monica

After graduating from college in California, we moved to Michigan, where my husband started law school.  The weather there is bitterly cold in winter and so hot in summer that life doesn’t seem worth living (before the days of universal … Continue reading →

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Oh, You Uncommon Loon/Heart Lake Bliss

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Monica

Early this August we went backpacking for the second year at Heart Lake in Yellowstone.  The distance is eight miles from trailhead to lake and another two miles around to our campsite.  Some campsites are as much as five miles … Continue reading →

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Time for a Master Swim Lesson

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Monica

heading home

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East Side Views – Heart Lake

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Monica
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Backpacking at Heart Lake in Yellowstone

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Monica

This summer we spent 4 days, 3 nights backpacking at Heart Lake in Yellowstone.  We have been to Heart Lake before on day hikes.  But it’s a long way in – more than 8 miles to the lake itself – … Continue reading →

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Dead Tree Breathing

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Monica

Sound of Dead Tree Breathing Wind-driven bellows empty and fill cavity vibrates with rasping breath wistful music of standing death On the DeLacy Creek trail to Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, we heard this tree filling its tree lungs.  … Continue reading →

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Backpacking in Yellowstone/The Merger

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Monica

Backpacking in Yellowstone Hoped-for submersion auspicious inversion civilizing subversion total immersion The Merger Speak not of boardrooms of quick-voiced chaos and closed-in spaces __________________ rather, into quiet ease – the lullaby of birdsong wind’s dance with the trees refrain of … Continue reading →

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Spring in Canyonlands and Green River, Utah

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Monica

Last week we rented an RV and took our dogs to Utah. We love going there in the spring. But dogs are not permitted on trails in the national parks, and it’s generally too hot – or too uncomfortable – … Continue reading →

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