Month: March 2016

  • Lost Lake Loop

    Lost Lake Loop

    —

    by

    Jake Bramante

    Lost Lake Loop in the Tower-Roosevelt area of Yellowstone National Park offers a variety of habitat including a quaint lake, open sagebrush meadows, and older coniferous forests. This variety leads to a great collection of wildlife including antelope, bison, bears, birds and wonderful wildflowers in the spring. The sun danced in and out of the…

  • Freezout Lake 2016

    Freezout Lake 2016

    —

    by

    Jake Bramante

    Freezout Lake near Fairfield, Montana serves as a stopover location for approximately 300,000 Snow Geese every March towards the end of the month. Whether or not your a birder, this spectacle is incredible. The birds spend the nights on the ponds and the days refueling by gleaning barley from the nearby fields. From there, they…

  • Fountain Paint Pots

    Fountain Paint Pots

    —

    by

    Jake Bramante

    Fountain Paint Pots in Yellowstone National Park is a short, accessible, family friendly walk along mats of microbes featuring sapphire blue pools, boiling water, and the mud pots that give this area its name. Depending upon the time of year you come, the mud pots will look different based upon the amount of water in…

  • Midway Geyser Basin

    Midway Geyser Basin

    —

    by

    Jake Bramante

    Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park features the iconic Grand Prismatic and it’s vast orange mats. All along this busy boardwalk are beautiful, deep blue pools that culminate to this natural wonder. All of this is backdropped by rising columns of steam across a desolate flat. If you want to stop at the Midway…

  • Beaver Ponds Trail

    Beaver Ponds Trail

    —

    by

    Jake Bramante

    The Beaver Ponds Trail in Yellowstone National Park offers a nice combination of open grasslands and forest. This mixture gives you great opportunities to see elk, small mammals, and a wide variety of other birds. Overall, it’s a great hike to do near the Mammoth Hot Springs area. In the spring, much of Yellowstone National…

  • Mammoth Terraces

    Mammoth Terraces

    —

    by

    Jake Bramante

    Mammoth Terraces in Yellowstone National Park is a fantastic collection of hot springs that are, well, terraced. Travertine is the main feature bringing an artificial looking landscaping to the edge of the forest. A collection of boardwalk and paved paths weave around these features giving everyone in the family a chance to marvel at these…

  • Backcountry Permits of Glacier National Park

    Backcountry Permits of Glacier National Park

    —

    by

    Jake Bramante

    There are two ways to get  a backcountry campsite in Glacier National Park. The first way is to get an advance reservation which I talk about in the video below. This system is a little bit complicated and has changed as of 2016 to an online only system. The second way is to get a…