The Grand (Mis)Adventure: Day 7 – Backpacking through Lone Star Geyser Basin & Travels Home
“The Grand (Mis)Adventure” is a blog series chronicling my fourteen-day-turned-seven-day adventure in July 2025 through the rugged, awe-inspiring northwestern corner of Wyoming. From hiking and backpacking along the Continental Divide to paddle boarding on alpine lakes and camping under the stars, I’ll be sharing the highs, challenges, and misadventures from my summer vacation that didn’t…
The Grand (Mis)Adventure: Day 6 – Backpacking the North Shore of Shoshone Lake & Shoshone Geyser Basin
“The Grand (Mis)Adventure” is a blog series chronicling my fourteen-day-turned-seven-day adventure in July 2025 through the rugged, awe-inspiring northwestern corner of Wyoming. From hiking and backpacking along the Continental Divide to paddle boarding on alpine lakes and camping under the stars, I’ll be sharing the highs, challenges, and misadventures from my summer vacation that didn’t…
The Grand (Mis)Adventure: Day 5 – Backpacking to Shoshone Lake
“The Grand (Mis)Adventure” is a blog series chronicling my fourteen-day-turned-seven-day adventure in July 2025 through the rugged, awe-inspiring northwestern corner of Wyoming. From hiking and backpacking along the Continental Divide to paddle boarding on alpine lakes and camping under the stars, I’ll be sharing the highs, challenges, and misadventures from my summer vacation that didn’t…
The Grand (Mis)Adventure: Day 4 – Old Faithful, Black Sand Basin, & West Thumb Geyser Basin
“The Grand (Mis)Adventure” is a blog series chronicling my fourteen-day-turned-seven-day adventure in July 2025 through the rugged, awe-inspiring northwestern corner of Wyoming. From hiking and backpacking along the Continental Divide to paddle boarding on alpine lakes and camping under the stars, I’ll be sharing the highs, challenges, and misadventures from my summer vacation that didn’t…
The Grand (Mis)Adventure: Day 3 -Amphitheater Lake Hike in Grand Teton National Park
“The Grand (Mis)Adventure” is a blog series chronicling my fourteen-day-turned-seven-day adventure in July 2025 through the rugged, awe-inspiring northwestern corner of Wyoming. From hiking and backpacking along the Continental Divide to paddle boarding on alpine lakes and camping under the stars, I’ll be sharing the highs, challenges, and misadventures from my summer vacation that didn’t…
Under the Stars: My Guide to Camping in Yellowstone National Park
Last updated August 4, 2025 I’ve been lucky enough to spend seventeen nights over four trips camping within Yellowstone National Park, and it finally dawned on me that maybe I should write a little review of the campsites I have stayed at! You won’t see me calling this “the ultimate,” “most inclusive,” or “bestest ever”…
Falling for Grand Teton: Day 5 – Signal Mountain, Jenny Lake, & Moose
October 4, 2022 Well, “Falling for Yellowstone” would’ve been a strange name for an adventure day happening in Grand Teton National Park! The final day of adventure was here. We packed up the moist tent for the last time (it was a rockstar when it came to keeping us dry the entire trip!), and headed…
Falling for Yellowstone: Day 4 – Norris Geyser Basin, Mount Washburn, Mud Volcano, & Yellowstone Lake
October 3, 2022 The final full day in Yellowstone arrived as we crawled out of the rain soaked tent that was thankfully still keeping us perfectly dry inside despite being solidly drenched for four nights. It seemed like the precipitation was holding off, so we quickly packed up the wet tent as best as we…
Falling for Yellowstone: Day 3 – Mammoth Hot Springs, Wraith Falls, Tower Falls, Dunraven Pass, & Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
October 2, 2022 The weather was not willing to play nice during this trip to Yellowstone. Upon waking up to another chilly, rainy day with precipitation forecasted throughout the day, Eric and I took to debating the day’s itinerary I had planned. Ideally, we would be heading to Dunraven Pass to summit Mount Washburn in…
Falling for Yellowstone: Day 2 – The Geyser Basins
October 1, 2022 Allllll the hot water! This would be the day for main geyser basins of Yellowstone… the greatest concentration of geysers and hydrothermal features in the world. My geyser geek self would shuttle Eric through the Upper, Black Sand, Midway, and Lower Geyser Basins before the exhausting day was done! We didn’t even…
Falling for Yellowstone: Day 1 – Oxbow Bend, Colter Bay, West Thumb Geyser Basin, Riddle Lake & Lewis Lake
I needed one last big adventure for 2022, and some more time spent sleeping in a tent before the year was up. One thing I’ve been saying the last few years is I needed to visit Yellowstone National Park in the later fall season to see it with moody weather and a lack of people,…
Caldera Tales – Day 8: Steamboat Point, Lake Butte Drive, & Sylvan Pass
September 13, 2021 All good things must come to an end… my 2021 “big adventure” and my week of avoiding my “real life” was over and it was time to pack up camp and head back to the opposite corner of Wyoming – an eight hour journey! (Wyoming is big, and Yellowstone is NOT “in…
Caldera Tales – Day 7: Norris Geyser Basin, Ice Lake, & Little Gibbon Falls
September 12, 2021 Sadly my last full day in Yellowstone was here. To make up for the sunrise dud the day before at West Thumb, I was greeted with a spectacular sunrise as I made my way from my campsite at Canyon towards Norris Geyser Basin in the early morning hours. Seriously, I made it…
Caldera Tales – Day 6: Mud Volcano & Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
September 11, 2021 It rained overnight, and I strangely enough love camping in the rain (aside from packing up soggy tents). I woke well before sunrise, hoping to get out to West Thumb Geyser Basin for the sunrise. I was happy after days of record high temperatures the weather had turned more seasonal, and I…
Caldera Tales – Day 5: Lone Star Geyser, West Thumb Geyser Basin, and Yellowstone Lake
September 10, 2021 Time to pack up and move to another spot! After three nights at Madison, I was looking forward to new scenes and rejuvenating my energy for the rest of my eight day trip. I’d be heading south for a one night stay at Grant Village before heading up back north for a…
Caldera Tales – Day 4: Biscuit Basin, Mystic Falls, Black Sand Basin, & Upper Geyser Basin
September 9, 2021 I feel like I have to begin the blog for this day with a huge confession… I did not watch Old Faithful erupt on this trip. Whew, now that my confession is off my chest… It is geyser basin day! Chasing all the geysers, all day long! Naturally, I got an early…
Caldera Tales – Day 3: Sentinel & Imperial Meadows, Imperial Geyser, Fairy Falls, Fountain Paint Pots & Firehole Lake Drive
“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.” – Teddy Roosevelt September 8, 2021 Another early morning and the bugles of nearby elk greeted me as I dressed in layers and boiled water for coffee and oatmeal. Today I had a BIG hike planned – in fact,…
Caldera Tales – Day 2: Osprey Falls, Mammoth Hot Springs, & Artists Paintpots
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir September 7th, 2021 I have never smoked anything in my life, but I woke up feeling as if I (assumingely) smoked cigarette after cigarette all night long. The air quality was stupidly awful, and I rubbed my dry, scratchy eyes…
Caldera Tales – Day 1: Trout Lake, Lost Creek Falls, Petrified Tree, & the Lamar Valley
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir September 6, 2021… the day had arrived to head back to one of my favorite places ever, Yellowstone National Park. After spending five days/four…
Of Geysers & Waterfalls – Days 7 & 8: Midway Geyser Basin, Jenny Lake, Hidden Falls, Colter’s Bay, and Granite Creek Falls
Day 7 – August 28, 2020 Sad, the final morning in Yellowstone. Hindsight is always something that can come into play, and looking back I would’ve done this day much differently and spent the night off in the national forest near the Hoback Canyon, but alas… hindsight is 20/20. It still wasn’t a bad day,…
Of Geysers & Waterfalls – Day 6: Fairy Falls, Black Sand Basin, and Upper Geyser Basin
Day 6 – August 27, 2020 The day of hydrothermal madness. The day I’d see something like 25% of the world’s geysers in a one square mile area, and the world’s largest concentration of hot springs. In other words, the geyser chase was about to get serious! It got stormy overnight, and I was awaken…
Of Geysers & Waterfalls – Day 5: Mammoth Hot Springs, Undine Falls, Biscuit Basin, Mystic Falls, and Lower Geyser Basin
Day 5 – August 26, 2020 Early mornings in Yellowstone are special. The cool temperatures create a steam-filled landscape that just puts me in the most special mood. I’m not a morning person at all, but I became a morning person in Yellowstone. Today would have me driving from Madison up to Mammoth Hot Springs…
Of Geysers & Waterfalls – Day 4: Artist Point, Norris Geyser Basin, Artists’ Paint Pots, Monument Geyser Basin, and Firehole Lake Drive
Day 4 – August 25, 2020 Today was the day that taught me early mornings are the key to a more enjoyable Yellowstone experience. I’m not talking about extreme early mornings, but getting to places at 7:30am greatly increases the positive visitor experience! I packed up and headed out of Canyon Campground with a mug…
Of Geysers & Waterfalls – Day 3: West Thumb Geyser Basin, Mud Volcano, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River
Day 3 – August 24, 2020 It’s Yelly-stone Day, it’s Yelly-stone Day!! Seriously, I’m not an early bird, but I sprung up out of my sleeping bag at 5am, ready to get the show on the road and head into Yellowstone National Park for the first time in 29 years. Volcanos! Waterfalls! Geysers! Bubbling mud!…
Next up… Yellowstone!
It’s been 29 years… but I’m finally going back to Yellowstone!!! You’d think living in Wyoming, I would’ve been to Yellowstone more than once. But people forget how large our state really is – I’m about seven hours and 400 miles away from the park, so it’s not just a weekend bop over to the…
The Adventuring Heidi 