Category: Travel
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Family Planning (how to survive a family camping trip)
Our frustration from the Jenny Lake hike fired up as we began planning the next day’s activities with C’s family, though Jenny Lake never got mentioned. The general plan was to go to Yellowstone the next day, and we stayed up late drinking and debating different routes and options. The more we disagreed, the more…
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The wrong things
We seem to always worry about the wrong things… My mom worried about me hiking alone because I might get eaten by a bear. A woman in Yellowstone didn’t go on one of the hikes because she didn’t have bear spray. Yet, only 1 person per year is attacked by a bear in the park.…
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Finding solitude in a National Park during the busiest season – Great Basin NP
Bringing our dog on this trip has been the best and worst thing. She’s not allowed on any of the trails in the National Parks, so we have to take turns hiking and exploring. We certainly would have been able to do more in the parks without her here, but we also wouldn’t have been…
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Camping in Grand Teton NP
The National Parks are my Disney world. Driving down roads lined with thousands of pine trees that open up to blue lakes, canyon rivers, and unbelievable mountains, we get swallowed up in it all. We lose ourselves. Finding solitude without going into the backcountry is nearly impossible, but it doesn’t matter. There’s something about being…
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Grand Teton NP
We’re all looking at these mountains like they’re an abstract painting we’re trying to comprehend. Am I just one dot in this pointillistic picture or am I everything just as the peaks are everything and we are all everything? Did we make it too easy to bask in wonder at this view or is this accessibility exactly…
Trynia Kaufman 