Join me for a journey through Yellowstone National Park. I spent several summers surveying the Park’s wetlands to record changes in amphibian populations and when I wasn’t wrangling frogs, I was hiking, drawing and taking photos. Lots of them! And although, it’s been a few years since I’ve been back to Yellowstone, I thought that now would be a meaningful time to share a field biologist’s perspective on one of our many national treasures. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy this journal and photos of standing on rocky ledges overlooking waterfalls or glancing up from catching tadpoles to find that my field partner had been replaced by a moose or getting chased by a pair of ridiculously cute river otters and you will be inspired to get out there and do the same (okay, maybe not all of it!). Nonetheless, the wilderness is calling. Immerse yourself or just dip a toe in. Either way, don’t separate yourself from the beauty that awaits you.
Read my full travel journal here.
2013: Yellowstone
Sights along the way
- June 5, 2013: On the road
- June 16, 2013: Crossing the country
- August 21, 2013: From Yellowstone and back
Yellowstone Field Journal
- June 10, 2013: Training day #1
- June 11, 2013: Training day #2
- June 12, 2013: Training day #3
- June 13, 2013: Training day #4
- June 14, 2013: Old Faithful
- June 15, 2013: Elephant Back
- June 16, 2013: West Thumb Overlook
- June 17, 2013: Continental Divide & Solfatara
- June 18, 2013: Antelope Valley & Specimen Ridge
- June 19, 2013: Nez Perce/Mary Mountain Trail
- June 20, 2013: Mud Volcano & Sulphur Caldron
- June 21, 2013: West Yellowstone
- June 22, 2013: Kepler Cascade
- June 23, 2013: Elephant Back (again)
- June 24, 2013: Tanager Lake
- June 25, 2013: Fishing Bridge
- June 26, 2013: Lewis Lake
- June 27, 2013: Lewis Lake
- June 28, 2013: Grand Prismatic & Firehole Drive
- June 29, 2013: Day off
- July 1, 2013: Rock Point
- July 2, 2013: Crawfish Creek
- July 3, 2013: Dunraven
- July 4, 2013: Mary Bay
- July 6, 2013: Park tour
- July 7, 2013: Storm Point
- July 8, 2013: Shoshone Day #1
- July 9, 2013: Shoshone Day #2
- July 10, 2013: Observation Point
- July 11, 2013: Craig Pass
- July 12, 2013: Gibbon Falls
- July 13, 2013: Old Faithful Inn
- July 14, 2013: Grand Tetons
- July 15, 2013: Grebe Lake
- July 16, 2013: Howard Eaton Trail
- July 17, 2013: Riddle Lake
- July 18, 2013: Gibbon Meadows
- July 19, 2013: A sad goodbye
2014: Yellowstone
Sights Along the Way
- June 8, 2014: The road thus far…
- June 9, 2014: Myre Big Island State Park, Albert Lea, MN
- June 12, 2014: Lily Dale, NY
- June 12, 2014: The Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD
- June 13, 2014: 1880 Town, SD
- June 13, 2014: Wall Drugs & the Badlands, SD
- June 14, 2014: Keystone, SD to Buffalo, WY
- June 14, 2014: The Bighorns and more…
- June 15, 2014: From Cody to Yellowstone
- June 16, 2014: Overview of my trip
Yellowstone Field Journal
- June 17, 2014: What in the heck am I doing here?
- June 18, 2014: Risk Assessment
- June 23, 2014: Week 1
- June 23, 2014: Nez Perce/Mary Mountain Trail
- June 29, 2014: Blacktail Plateau
- July 10, 2014: Gibbon Meadows
- July 11, 2014: Tanager Lake
- July 12, 2014: Blacktail Pond
- July 13, 2014: My Peeps
- July 14, 2014: Fern Cascade
- July 15, 2014: Gull Point & Utah Dorm life
- July 16, 2014: Indian Pond
- July 20, 2014: Gardner River
- July 21, 2014: Winter Creek
- July 22, 2014: Crawfish Creek
- July 23, 2014: Lewis Lake
- July 24, 2014: Dunraven
- July 28, 2014: Storm Point
- July 28, 2014: Blacktail Plateau Drive
- August 9, 2014: Solfatara
- August 10, 2014: Observation Point
- August 11, 2014: Mary Bay
