yellowstone

Pretty arbitrary name for a trip report, but this one is all over the place with plenty of highs and lows - of both the literal and metaphorical varieties. I've had a few versions of this trip drawn up for a while now, but it finally came together. Some places I've wanted to see for a while now...

Catching up on old photos/trip reports In between two backpacking trips I spent a night in a Lake Lodge Cabin. July 30 - 31, 2024 In between my Winds trip and my Hidden Creek trip, I spent a night in Yellowstone. I was able to get one night in a cabin at Lake Lodge. So I drove up from Dubois...

Went on a road trip today, May 30. Very productive........ Lots of elk, bison, some antelope, some mtn goats, sandhills, swans, prairie dogs, 16 bears...mostly blackies, 4 of which were right on the roadside..... that is the most bears I have ever seen at once in the Park!

May 9-11, 2025 Here is a little early season trip to get everyone hyped for their Yellowstone trips this summer. My friend Steve texted a week or so in advance to gauge interest in camping a night at Mammoth and then doing an overnighter in the Black Canyon of the Yellowstone area. It was a...

September 27 - October 1, 2024 Here it is, several months late. We did our annual fall trip to the SW corner of Yellowstone in 2024. This was the fifth year in a row (hence the uncreative title). We varied the route again, but most of it was a repeat of things we had done before. This time...

Thanks again to everyone who commented on the other thread to help plan this trip. We flew into Bozeman, and rented a Subaru Outback with AWD & snow tires. It was around $1300 for the week, but well worth it. I saw the plows running through the park from first light til dark (which was around 5...

September 13-15, 2024 Continuing with the old trip reports since the covid isn't gone yet, here's one I did in September on Pebble Creek in Yellowstone. I had just finished up at a 3-day work conference at Fairmont Hot Springs, so I went home to grab my mostly pre-packed gear and headed toward...

Our annual fall trip to Yellowstone. Originally had planned another area at higher elevation. Due to heavy thunderstorms in the forecast, and possible snow at high elevations, we adjusted our trip and decided to head up Slough Creek. We have been going to Yellowstone enough years and through...

10 days after returning from my Grebe Lake trip, it was time to head back to Yellowstone for my usual September trip, this time to the Specimen Creek drainage in the northwest corner of the park. I've been doing this trip for years with some of my coworkers or former coworkers, with the usual...

Quick overnighter before weather sets in...... Crisp, no people, but no wildlife either

This report will contain a lot of stuff so be prepared. After backpacking out to Grebe Lake for four days, Sheila and I headed to Old Faithful to stay in the Old Faithful Lodge Cabins for two nights. On the morning of the eighth, we met up with Mr. and Mrs. @TractorDoc for breakfast at the Old...

After our 2022 trip, which started in Yellowstone and ended in the Teton Wilderness (report here), Stacy said she'll be sticking to trails built and maintained by the park service from now on. No more Teton Wilderness horse trails. I can't say I blame her. For this trip we started and ended...

I have made a goal of trying to visit Yellowstone the week after Labor Day for several years now. My hope is that most kids will be back in school, the elk will be bugling, and cool nights are complimented by crisp, sunny days. A portion of the trip is usually set aside for the backcountry...

On September 4th, our group headed into the Yellowstone backcountry to Grebe Lake for a four day backpacking trip. This trip included two day hikes: one to Observation Peak, and a second one to Wolf Lake. Originally I had wanted to get campsite 4G4 on the north shore of Grebe for three nights...

Thanks to a "Look What You've Been Missing..." email from this website I read Scatman's post on Jay Creek. Having also visited Jay Creek for the first time this year-- but in different conditions-- I got inspired to do this, my first trip report. I hope you enjoy. To set the scene: It was...

We had 4 people enter the permit lottery on this one, only two of us got chosen, and one on the 3rd day. It was a bit of a frenzy to get campsites & piece this route together, but we were able to make it work. It was supposed to be a group of 5; Amber & myself, our friends who work at the Colter...

I met my buddy Bruce & his son Austin at the trailhead, around 10am on June 19. They'd hiked up Slough a few times, but always earlier in the year & never past the Silvertip Ranch. We had big plans on going much further, that didn't pan out quite as expected, but it was still a great trip. Day...

I got a brand new knee on December 12th, and had done all the PT (physical therapy), etc., and was anxious to see how it was going to work out. I had asked before, I think here, about what people with new knees had to change, or what they had to work on, and I think someone said use a lighter...

I like visiting Yellowstone during the month of September, and was fortunate to make a return trip in 2023 after the epic August Thorofare adventure. @scatman had invited me and good friend Cody for a couple nights he planned near the Gallatin River. Brother Patrick ( @CajunPoncho ) was...

Mirror Plateau via Pelican Valley and Pelican Creek I should start out by saying this route was inspired by a Scatman Trip Report. Thanks to Scatman and Backcountry Post. I had a great Yellowstone Lottery spot last year and had planned a Lamar River Loop from Pelican Valley going onto the...