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Category Archives: national parks
Otter Family at Heart Lake in Yellowstone
Otter family visits our backpacking campsite at Heart Lake in Yellowstone
Posted in ecology, national parks, Nature, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged backpacking, Heart Lake, otters, Yellowstone
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Winter Memory
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
Posted in earth, national parks, Nature, Poems, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged climate change, geysers, welcoming winter, winter in Yellowstone, Yellowstone
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Lost Canyon Adventure
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
Posted in national parks, Nature, Poems, rescue, Utah, wilderness
Tagged adventure, backpacking, Canyonlands National Park, dark sky, Edward Abbey, Lost Canyon, national parks, nature, Orion, poetry, slickrock, U.S. Department of the Interior, Utah
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Oh, You Uncommon Loon/Heart Lake Bliss
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
Time for a Master Swim Lesson
heading home
Posted in national parks, Nature, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged beaver, Heart Lake, Yellowstone
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East Side Views – Heart Lake
Posted in Birds, national parks, Nature, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged backpacking, dragonflies, Heart Lake, Mergansers, Yellowstone
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Backpacking at Heart Lake in Yellowstone
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
Posted in national parks, Nature, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged backpacking, beaver, Heart Lake, Yellowstone
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Dead Tree Breathing
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
Posted in music, national parks, Poems, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged national parks, pine trees, poetry, Yellowstone
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Backpacking in Yellowstone/The Merger
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
Spring in Canyonlands and Green River, Utah
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
Posted in national parks, Utah
Tagged Canyonlands, desert flowers, Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey, Green River, national parks, RV camping, San Rafael Swell, slot canyon, Utah
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