by George Bumann | Mar 16, 2018 | Family, How To, Lifestyle, Nature, Yellowstone Life
When the old post office in Gardiner was being built, our neighbor found a chipped piece of obsidian in the earth around the site. That piece turned out to be an 11,000 year-old fragment of a projectile point knapped from volcanic glass that mined at Obsidian Cliff,...
by George Bumann | Nov 18, 2017 | Family, Lifestyle, Yellowstone Life
It has been 7 days since our sweet Jasper left us. Jasper, the 13 year-old Labrador—”our first child”—went with the angels in the most peaceful way last week with all of us at his side. There is now a hole in this house, and on our morning walks. Every...
by Jenny Golding | Oct 23, 2017 | Family, How To, Nature, Videos, Yellowstone Wildlife
When we woke up Saturday to a fresh layer of snow, we knew it would be a good morning for finding animal tracks. Sure enough, after about an hour of meandering along the creek bottom, we came across an exciting find… mountain lion tracks! It appeared to be a...
by George Bumann | Sep 11, 2017 | Adventures, Family, Lifestyle, Yellowstone Life
There are things that are ephemeral and those that are eternal; the fleeting ripples of a rising trout or the momentary flavor of ripe whortleberries on the tongue, the dull thud of boulders rolling in a stream swollen with snowmelt, or—in the case of the events of...
by Jenny Golding | Sep 4, 2017 | Adventures, Backcountry, Family, Videos, Yellowstone for Families
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by George Bumann | Aug 28, 2017 | Family, Lifestyle, Yellowstone Life
When there are dragons to be slain, monsters to defeat and ruffians to subdue—enter the sword-bearing boy! Oh, but first, dad has to create his Excalibur— from the fibers of a stout 2×4. With the outline of the blade rendered in simple Sharpie marker, Pappa, aka...
