This morning, 26th September 2025, I woke up at the Madison Campground after a cold night that had settled deep into my bones. The air was crisp when I stepped outside, the kind of sharp mountain air that instantly clears the head. From there, I drove toward the Midway Geyser Basin, determined to finally see […]
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This morning, on the 25th of September 2025, I set out from Mammoth and drove south toward the Norris Geyser Basin. The air was fresh and cool, and the early autumn light gave the mountains and valleys a sharp clarity, as if every ridge and slope had been etched into the horizon. On the way
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This morning, on the 24th of September 2025, I set out from Livingston with the sun rising gently over the Absaroka Range. The road carried me toward Pine Creek Falls Trailhead, where the crisp autumn air made the mile-long hike feel fresh and invigorating. The trail wound through a forest already turning toward fall, splashes
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Today, on the 17th of September 2025, I set out from Rising Sun and followed the trail into the mountains of Glacier National Park. The morning greeted me with brilliant sunshine, the air was crisp yet gentle, and the light made the slopes and cliffs glow with colors that seemed almost unreal. As I climbed
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Today, the 16th of September 2025, I set out from Sun Point at St. Mary Lake, to Virginia Falls in Glacier National Park. After a full day of rain yesterday, the air still carried a trace of dampness, and the morning began beneath a ceiling of clouds. Yet, as the hours passed, the light shifted
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13 September 2025 The morning air in Waterton carried the crispness of early autumn as I set off along the Rowe Creek Trail toward the lakes. The path rose steeply at once, climbing through the blackened trunks of a burnt forest. Charred stems stood like solemn reminders of fire, but between them tender green shoots
11th September 2025 I woke that morning up in the City Campground and was impressed of the Light. As I started, the clouds have been low, with the burnt skeletons of trees from past wildfires still stark against the pale light. The trailhead rustled: dry needles and talus. The air was crisp. I set out
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September 9th, 2025 The road into Waterton was already a journey into another world. Long before I reached the park gates, the mountains appeared suddenly, rising out of the prairie like a wall. Their abruptness always surprises me: flat golden grassland stretches for miles, and then, without transition, the peaks of Sofa Mountain, Vimy Peak,
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7 September 2025 – Hodoo Trail & Spray Lakes West I drove to the Hodoo Trail self-interpretive path in Banff and walked past the second Hodoo Viewpoint, pushing farther than planned. The air was hazy—smoke drifting from wildfires in BC, Idaho, and Washington—not crystal clear like I’d hoped. The river valley opened up, and across
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On the morning of September 4, 2025, I took the shuttle bus up to Moraine Lake, deep in the Valley of the Ten Peaks. The lake greeted me with its unforgettable turquoise waters, framed by sheer walls of stone and ice. To start the day, I walked the short Rockpile Trail. After about 250 meter
