Running in Pocatello, Cycling in Teton Nat'l Park

May 14th & 15th-


That Saturday, we drove to Pocatello to do some recon work of the Pocatello 50 course. Beginning at the Gibson Jack TH, we followed the course route up over Kinport Peak to the City Creek TH, then back up and over Kinport to Midnight Creek and back to Gibson Jack. Other than a 4 mile stretch of 2 foot deep post-holing and a panic-stricken 4 minute bout of deer chasing by the dogs, everything went well.

Then on Sunday, it was over to Jackson for an 80 mile loop ride up to the Jackson Lake dam and back.

It was really amazing to see the volume of water being released from the lake in preparation for the record-setting snowpack to melt and flow into the lake. Thankfully, the preparation worked and mother nature brought very gradual warming which allowed for much of the water to be released controllably downstream without any major flooding.

Record Spring Snowpack: Approaching 700 Inches

May 7th-


Another spring weekend. Another snowstorm. More powder skiing on Mount Glory.





This is a couple hundred feet below the summit of Mt. Glory where the bootpack trail goes under the Big Grey Square.

Cycling Yellowstone in the Spring

May 1st-

We headed up to West Yellowstone for a 60 mile road bike tour to Old Faithful and back.

The best part of touring Yellowstone by bicycle in the spring? All the babies are on display, predominantly the bison.

And the worst part of touring Yellowstone by bicycle in the spring? The bison use the roadways to travel because after the park service plows them, it is the most efficient route between where they are and... wherever they want to go. The bison are clearly in charge.

We had to wait numerous times for a vehicle to meet up with us from behind and ask the driver to give us a "rolling block" between us and the 1200 lb wild beast walking down the road.

We thankfully did not have any negative animal encounters. We may have seen a snowflake or two. And we also had the opportunity to prove a park ranger wrong* (which was definitely the highlight for Liz).

*For the record, after being welcomed through the West Yellowstone gate by the park ranger working there, we were approached by a ranger at Old Faithful who told us the roads were currently closed to cyclists due to grizzly bear activity and essentially reprimanded us for riding there on our bikes. Despite the throngs of people walking a half mile or more off the roadway on the interpretive geyser basin pathways (the pathways were completely open), this guy seemed to think cyclists on the roads had been temporarily banned. Liz countered. And won.

Mt. Glory

April 30th-

With winter refusing to give up, I continued to take a lap on Glory before heading into Jackson on those Saturdays when I was scheduled to work.

Still skiing powder!

Seven Months of Posting...

... in seven days!

Not sure if it can be done, but I'll give it a shot. Due, in part, to a malfunctioning camera/computer interface since my last post on Easter Sunday last spring and also, in part, to a busier and far more hectic schedule over the past spring/summer, my blogging has since faltered having been replaced by persistent and escalating frustration towards my continually unusable LG phone (which also doubles as my blogging camera and has recently been replaced under warranty) and some rapidly changing, fast-forward life events. Whew...

Picking up where I left off last Easter...

Enjoy...