Waking Up in the Wilderness: A Yellowstone Journey
Are you an armchair traveler, outdoor adventurer, or national park enthusiast? Are you ready to trek across Yellowstone through the pages of a book?
If so, this may be the book for you.
It’s more than an adventure story about me and my family doing what we love in a place we love with people we love. It’s a sign pointing beyond all that and saying, “Look at this!” so you can see what there is to see for yourself.
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5 Kid-Friendly Yellowstone Hikes
We started taking our kids out on Yellowstone's trails when they were tiny, as in four, eight, and fifteen months tiny. They went from being carried to toddling to running ahead and we went from being the pack animals who carried them to trying to keep up. These trails are kid-friendly hikes that our family has taken again and again. 5...
What is the Wilderness?
“Where do the rangers keep the animals at night?” Standing across the camera counter from the man who asked that question, I almost laughed. Surely he was joking. But I looked at him and saw he was serious. This guy has to be at least thirty. I thought. How could he not know this? There is no way to contain Yellowstone’s animals. Even if there...
Yellowstone’s Explosion & the Landscape of Everyday Life
This summer one of Yellowstone’s thermal features had a moment. Headlines featuring the word explosion will do that. At the end of July, Black Diamond Pool in Biscuit Basin didn’t just erupt. It exploded. Something happened in the unstable ground below it or maybe within the plumbing system that feeds and drains it, causing it to fling steam,...
Waking up in the Wilderness is honored to be included in the Inspired by Yellowstone Artist Series.
“There is a great deal of good to be learned from what we see every day, if we would but consider it.”
~ Matthew Henry
