Tag Archives: backpacking

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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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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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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Highlights of Yellowstone in August, front and backcountry

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Monica

Lone Star Geyser erupting just as we approached having a warm bath in Shoshone Creek near a hot spring seeing Shoshone Lake, one of my favorite places on earth, from many perspectives and in many different lights, and waking up … 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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