Wyoming Journeys
Explorations in the state of Wyoming.
2022
2022 Expedition in Review
On February 27, I left San Diego on what turned out to be a 16,000 mile tour of western North America that lasted 7½ months. I began with a slow…
2022-07-18 Devil’s Tower & The Black Hills
I crossed south of the 49th parallel on Saturday, July 16. It took me two days of driving south to cross the broad prairies of eastern Montana, and I found…
2022-05-18 Lovell WY to Bridger MT
In my last episode, I told of leaving Cody on Tuesday, the seventeenth, and driving a few miles north to Ralston Reservoir, where I found birds to enjoy and a…
2022-05-17 Two Days in Cody Wyoming
I spent my first night in Cody at the Walmart parking lot. I’d been having difficulty getting clear focus in my camera when taking long shots of large mammals. Modern…
2022-05-15 Yellowstone Get-a-Way
My stay in Yellowstone began Friday with a night’s camping at the Madison Campground ten miles from the west entrance to the park. When Saturday morning rolled in, I launched…
2022-05-13 Yellowstone Red Dogs
Bison calves are fondly referred to as “Red Dogs” because of their reddish coloration when they are born. When I reached my campsite in Yellowstone National Park Friday afternoon, I…
2022-05-12 Wrapping It Up At Grand Teton
My last two days in Jackson Hole, weren’t very productive for megafauna, so my friend and fellow photographer Joe Ford indulged my propensity for chasing birds. After striking out on…
2022-05-10 Birds and Megafauna In Jackson Hole
I had a great week exploring Grand Teton National Park with my friend Joe Ford. Joe has a special fondness for what I call “megafauna”, and I fell into his…
2022-05-08&09 Teton Bear Hunting
Saturday, my friend Joe Ford and I scouted the region north of camp around Moran, Moose, and Coulter Bay. These locations are part of Grand Teton National Park. Always on…
2022-05-04&05 First Days In Jackson Hole
I drove away from Payette Idaho yesterday late in the morning after tending to the RV’s holding tanks and having breakfast with my good friend, Art. Contrary to my usual…
2015
2015-06-18 So Endeth The Journey
April 27, 2015 I departed my home in Poway for an expedition through eight western states, California to Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and back down the coast…
2015-05-22 Teton and Yellowstone Parks
My final departure from Jackson Wyoming on this day took me back through the same drive that Rick and I took on May 18th. Even before I crossed into Yellowstone…
2015-05-19 Moose-Wilson Road Re-Visited
That I did not find the Black-Backed Woodpecker does not, in my mind, constitute a failure. Those birds that I found made this outing a success … glass half full.…
2015-05-18 Jackson to Yellowstone
My friend Rick and I drove up from Jackson to Yellowstone for the day. I was looking for the Harlequin Ducks that were reported at the “Fishing Bridge” at the…
2015-05-17 Moose-Wilson Road
The Moose-Wilson Road skirts the western perimeter of the greater Jackson Valley just west of the Snake River. The northern end of the road ends at the Teton Park Road…
2015-05-16 Jackson Wyoming
My website suffered a catastrophic crash with complete loss of data on July 25, 2015. Much of the blog content going forward was necessarily re-created from memory. This could be…
2015-05-14 Pinedale Explorations
I visited Andy’s shop the next morning before he arrived at work. His friend Ross popped out the side door of the shop and figured out who I was by…
2015-05-13 Drive to Pinedale
It was a long drive out of Brigham City Utah to Pinedale Wyoming on this day. An ad hoc decision to investigate precipitated my first stop while climbing out of…