A visit to Yellowstone National Park is not complete without at least one overnight stay. A great injustice was served upon the many features of the park by calling it a park in the first place. A park is viewed by many as a place that can be seen in…
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Yellowstone Park is amazing. The problem is that I am not the only one who thinks so. Over 4 million other people annually share my dream of visiting the park and some of them are camping. If you didn’t make reservations and don’t get to the campground very early in…
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Ever dreamed of winning the Iditarod? Me neither. But, last winter I did take my 9 year old daughter on a sled dog trek in Emigrant, Montana. It was an amazing experience! I drove my own team of 8 dogs and it opened up a whole new world of adventurous…
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I am a minimalist. Nothing in my camping arsenal is cutting edge. I sleep under a tarp while stalking elk in the northern rockies sleeping on mats of pine needles under logs. I like to pack light and take whatever mother nature dishes out. I like to rough it, but…
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I remember an Alaska fishing trip where my group was flown into the headwaters of a remote river and floated for 10 days. We were totally self-sustained and had planned for every contingency; extra patch kits for the rafts, a robust first aid kit, satellite phone and MRE’s (Meals Ready…
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I was working for a counseling camp that provided an educational outdoor environment for troubled teen boys. I was assigned two boys 14 years old while various counselors read their assessments and decided where the newcomers fit into the program. They had been abused, neglected, hooked on drugs, lived on…
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Living and hiking in bear country is a blessing, not a curse. Bears, especially the American Grizzly is a symbol of the wild and untamed wilderness and isn’t that the reason we hike and camp? Our passion for the outdoors is deeply rooted in our innate need to connect with…
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If you are in the greater Washington D.C. area during October, here is a weekend getaway that will entertain and put you in the Halloween spirit. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia is a historic town at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers where West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland come…
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Glacier National Park is located in northwest Montana and was established in 1910. The park shares a border with Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park. There are many trails to choose from in Glacier National Park, but I want to tell you about one in particular that epitomizes the magic of…
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“Our public lands- whether a national park or monument, wildlife refuge, forest or prairie- make each one of us land-rich. It is our inheritance as citizens of a country called America.” – Terry Tempest Williams. Whether it is the Izembek Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Monomoy Refuge in Massachusetts, Bears Ears…
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Fishing may be your reason for hiking into the high country or it may be just an added bonus. If trout are in your crosshairs, chances are you have a packable rod, reel and a few favorite essential flies or lures that always accompany you while backpacking. But, if catching…
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The Beaten Path is a trail in south Montana connecting the Wilderness around the town of Cooke City with the East Rosebud, a drainage on the eastern slope of the Beartooth Mountains. The Beartooths are some of the most biologically diverse mountains on earth and the Beaten Path crosses over…
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In recent years, Yellowstone National Park has broken annual attendance records and 2016 was no exception with the park receiving 4.2 million visitors. Most of them only experience the grandeur of our nation’s oldest national park through a windshield. A few visitors take to some of the 900 miles of…
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