camping

Yellowstone

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Ting, our friends Chip and Miranda, and I all traveled to Yellowstone National Park for a week. We camped at Grant Village Campground, visiting West Thumb, Old Faithful, and the Grand Prismatic Spring, while casually exploring random other areas of the park. The weather was fantastic aside from some smoke, and the calls of the elk at night and close wildlife encounters will probably enter my dreams for quite a while. The bear you see below was captured at long distance; we saw him bare minutes after commenting that we hadn’t seen any grizzlies; almost immediately after, we saw folks stopped along the side of the road, looking into a meadow. We pulled over, and I grabbed the shot. I wish dearly I had a lens longer than 200mm…

Deception Pass

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When we picked up our teardrop camper, we decided that it only made sense as a purchase if we committed to using it nearly year-’round. To that end, here we are, on Halloween weekend, enjoying crisp fall beauty at one of Washington’s best State Parks, Deception Pass.

Cape Disappointment

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My wife and I bought a teardrop camper and took it for its inaugural trip with friends to Cape Disappointment State Park. The weather was typical: Occasionally torrential rain, cool temperatures, wind, and even some golden sun. Fall was in full effect, and I was reminded again why I love the season so much.