I sip my first mug of morning coffee while gazing at a cow elk standing on the other side of my frosted living room window. She stretches her neck toward the prickly limbs of an Engelmann spruce and rises, briefly, on her haunches to reach the lowest branch. She hangs there just long enough to …
Tag: Yellowstone
The Joy of Yellowstone Skiing
"As time went by, I also realized that the particular place I’d chosen was less important than the fact that I’d chosen a place and focused my life around it....What makes a place special is the way it buries itself inside the heart,..." Richard Nelson, The Island Within Breath billows in clouds of steam as …
Lamar Valley Christmas Odyssey
This is what we can promise the future: a legacy of care. That we will be good stewards and not take too much or give back too little, that we will recognize wild nature for what it is, in all its magnificent and complex history—an unfathomable wealth that should be consciously saved, not ruthlessly spent. …
Hiking the Wild
“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. for it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures a part of the geography of hope.” …
Writing the Wild 