Stories, photographs, travel notes, and safari reflections from Doug & Marcy

Grand Teton National Park Winter Shoot 2022

Kelly Warm Spring In Grand Teton National Park, Kelly Warm Spring is located along East Upper Gros Ventre Road about a quarter-mile from East Boundary Road.   The very short story behind KWS begins in 1925 when the area was known as Mud Spring.  During that year, a huge landslide (the largest in U.S. history) […]

grizzly 399 and bear jams

Traveling north of sixty … Grizzly 399 was born 25 years ago in the Pilgrim Creek Area of Grand Teton National Park and is older than usual for a grizzly bear. She was given her name as a research number by the Yellowstone Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team. I understand that this particular grizzly is […]

Many are chilled but few are frozen

A National Park all to Ourserlves

Traveling on the north side of 60 … It was about fourteen months ago that I watched  YouTube videos of photographer Thomas Heaton and friends describing their trip to the Canadian Rockies for winter photography.  Thomas’s enthusiasm is infectious and I longed to visit some of the places he photographed, but I just couldn’t get […]

THIS IS NOT THE BARN YOU SEEK

There is a particular barn in Grand Teton National Park that is widely photographed and I figured that I wanted to have my own crack at it. The photographic Web site Flickr calls the Thomas Alma (T.A.) Moulton Barn the most photographed barn in the world – but who knew that there are two Moulton […]

musings on moose

Our January ramblings in Grand Teton National Park have been somewhat limited because many of the roads are closed for winter.   We wondered before we came if there would be enough to occupy our time for the 10 days that we would be here, but we have so much enjoyed going back to the same […]

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