Monthly Archives: September 2013

It was cold overnight, though it didn’t appear to have frozen.  However, inside our cupboards, on the ceiling, there was heavy condensation everywhere that there is a rafter in the roof of the trailer.  We tried to dry it off … Continue reading →

It was much colder this morning as we left from Grant Village in Yellowstone.  Although it wasn’t freezing the temperature was about 3 C when we left this morning.  As we drove south into Grand Teton National Park we drove … Continue reading →

It was a very lovely evening yesterday. We built a fire and sat around after we’d roasted hotdogs. Enid roasted marshmallows. However sometime at night the weather changed and a major thunderstorm moved in. It is still raining so we’ve … Continue reading →

The hike to Fairy Falls is a pretty easy 4.5 km walk, very flat, through the newly grown forest after the fire of 1988.  Along much of the trail there is a thick growth of new lodgepole pine.  Towering above … Continue reading →

Today we travelled to the far northwest corner of the park, to Mammoth Hot Springs, to see the beautiful travertine deposits there.  However, we got there by going around the east side of the grand circle route which took us … Continue reading →

We thought we might go to Mammoth Hot Springs and drove a few miles before we decided the weather wasn’t worth the trip.   We turned around and came back to do our laundry. Unfortunately the weather doesn’t look very good … Continue reading →

It didn’t rain over night, but was still cloudy this morning, though it didn’t look as heavy as yesterday.  As we drove towards Old Faithful the clouds were low so we drove through fog, but as we came off the … Continue reading →

It started to rain just as we awoke this morning.  However, it didn’t look too bad, and there were some patches of blue sky, so we decided to go view some of the hot springs, mostly planning to stay in … Continue reading →

It was not as cold last night, though when we drove in to Big Sky this morning to go for our hike just about 8 am, it was cold enough that there was a lot of mist over the Gallatin … Continue reading →

It was definitely cold last night.  There was frost on the windshield this morning.  Fall has arrived here in the mountains of Montana. We drove to Big Sky after breakfast and stopped at the tourist information office where we got … Continue reading →