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I’d been to Glacier in 2003 and zipped through the park because I was short on time. It still stuck with me as one of the most beautiful places. I remember passing these Red Buses…

Took a stormy but scenic route up from Helena and stopped in Bigfork, Montana for lunch. We were told in so many words to have bear spray on hand if planning any hikes up in…

Spent a good chunk of the afternoon exploring the Montana Heritage Center and didn’t get through half of it. Our focus was on the Homeland Gallery which presented the travesty of American colonialism plainly. A…

Above? The Overlook for Grand Prismatic, the largest hot spring in the States. This was the first upward hike on the trip where I questioned my fitness more than once. But folks were doing…

Friends were ribbing us when we said we were doing a bus tour of Yellowstone, but it’s impossible for me to feel shame about this. I love a good bus tour, and will…

The Grand Tetons and Yellowstone are really close together — it just takes an hour on the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway to move between the two National Parks. It’s a lovely little drive…

The picture above is dark, the important thing is that little bit of light on the top of Grand Teton. We got up extra early to watch that triangle appear and slowly spread down the…

The drive from Lander westward was chill and pretty dreamy — the landscape transformed at every bend and the sky was big and blue. We caught our first glimpse of the Teton Range at Togwotee…

Above: Custom stained glass window at our friends’ place

We begrudgingly packed our bags and did one last loop through Lander, Wyoming. But before leaving town we enjoyed a really good lunch with Brad and…

It’s hard to whittle down this day.

After breakfast I squeezed in a virtual work interview before we hit the road for a hike — heading up, up, up into Shoshone National Forest with a…