Author: Phillip Doup

Today was mainly a travel and church day. We started off with church at 8:00 AM and then drove for a few hours to reach Devil’s Tower by about 12:30 or so. The featured image above is a view of Devil’s Tower from the road as we were nearing it. We hiked a couple of […]

Today was partly a travel day and partly used to browse the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area and Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Our first visit was the canyon, which was absolutely amazing. The real treat was at the Devil’s Canyon Overlook, featured in the main image above. Here’s a panorama view from that same […]

This morning the effects of the wildfire west of us, near the border of Yellowstone, were visible toward the end of the lake, but the view was incredible. This picture was taken at the shoreline directly below where our camper was parked. You can see the heavy clouds off in the distance. We thought those […]

Today was primarily a travel day, from our campsite in Parkside Campground in Custer National Forest in Montana to Buffalo Bill State Park just west of Cody, Wyoming. Although there were not many sites to see along the way, we did see this interesting old abandoned mining facility. Apparently this is where the worst mining […]

Today we started from our campground in Gardiner, MT with the plan to see whatever we could see between Mammoth Hot Springs and the northeast exit of Yellowstone and between Tower-Roosevelt and Canyon Village. There really aren’t a ton of attractions along that route, so we figured we would have more than enough time, turns […]

The title really indicates our planned agenda for the day, but there was an extraordinary surprise in store for us as we were traveling from Madison Campground up to the Bunsen Peak trail head. As we approached the Norris Geyser Basin area, we noticed an enormous plume of steam rising from the area, and we […]

The eruption of Great Fountain Geyser last night was so awesome, even though it was really dark, that we decided to see it again this morning. The eruptions are on a nearly 12-hour schedule, and since it erupted last night at 9 PM, we figured it would be possible to see it erupt again in […]

Our initial plan for the day was to go see the Grand Prismatic Pool before the crowds got heavy, since we had trouble getting through this area yesterday and figured it was going to be tough. It turned out that was a bad plan, because the fog was so terrible you really couldn’t see anything. […]

Today we packed up the camper and headed to the Old Faithful area known as the Upper Geyser Basin. We got there just in time to see a whole series of geyser eruptions, starting with the namesake, shown above. After the Old Faithful Eruption, we saw the Daisy Geyser, but we only managed to capture […]

This day started early with a focus on hiking to the summit of Mount Washburn. There are two trails that lead up, both being roads, only one of which is still used as a road. We took the trail up from Dunraven Pass, which we learned from some random guy on the way down used […]