What a crazy place Devils Tower National Monument (my 81st National Park visited) is. It could be seen from miles out, and it is completely unmistakable even from that distance. Still to the day a sacred place for many Native Americans, it was our home for a single night stay...
The Vedauwoo is an area of large granite rock formations just off Interstate 80 near Laramie, WY. The granite is said to be 1.4 billion years old, and some of the oldest (and most fun, in my opinion) rock in Wyoming. It is here that we setup camp for the...
We spent a portion of an afternoon at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historical Site which marks the only time we went into Laramie proper during our stay here. We toured the old prison which was in use from the 1870’s to 1903 both as a Federal and State penitentiary,...
A rendezvous of sorts. My son and I planned to meet up in Wyoming one last time before we moved on out of the area. It was a two-hour drive for him, coming from the Boulder area, and his first time driving to another state on his own. He arrived...
After spending almost three full weeks in the National Forest just outside of the Grand Teton National Park, and kayaking just about every body of water we could, we finally packed up and moved further North on our way towards Alaska. It was somewhat somber that we were leaving a...
For our final kayaking in the Grand Teton area we chose to revisit Jackson Lake inside the National Park. Though it was one of our first, it has so many nooks-n-crannys that it deserved another day of exploration. This day, instead of heading into the inlets and channels to Half...
Finally, early Monday morning, after a weekend of rain (and a raging hangover thanks to a night of Calypso Cocktails), Kerri and I got to bring the kayaks back out to the water. Our final destination to kayak in the area was the String Lake to Leigh Lake trip in...
The Chapel of the Transfiguration is a small log chapel in Grand Teton National Park and is now on the National Register of Historic Places . Built in 1925 it still holds services twice a week. It was built specifically to frame the Cathedral Group of peaks of the Teton...
After the kayaking adventures of the past weekend the weather came in to rain on our parade, so to speak. The work week has been just that, work-work-work which is not necessarily a bad thing. A few days of hard work allows more play time come the weekend where we...
We double-downed on the kayaking by hitting Jackson Lake following yesterday’s ‘yaking on Jenny Lake. We knew Jackson Lake would not let us down with the “trail” mingling among the many inlets, channels, and islands between Coulter Bay and Half Moon Bay.
