Your Tetons are showing

July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

We started in Yellowstone so here are the west thumb pics before our ynp departure… And after our Ringo 2 hour squirt timer. If we look exhausted in these pics, well, we are.

The tetons are just amazing. Dogs can’t go on the trails so we just took a scenic drive and took lots of pictures. I’m just going to put lots of pictures up probably without a lot of description because #pictureWorth1000words

I’ve been told Ringo pics are a good sell.

Then from the campsite we went to see the sunset over Mt. Moran.

Late night Ringo

July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Woke up very early and got our Yellowstone on. Good thing! We pulled into the nearly empty Old Faithful parking lot at 8 and by 10am, the parking lot was full and we were hitting the road back to campground to switch sites.

While there, Ringo got to see old faithful from afar. And we took turns going into the inn. We visited the geyser basin too. I have lots of pictures of Yellowstone that just can’t convey how weird Yellowstone is. It’s the sounds, the smells the colors, the deep hot bubbling pools of water /mud that you just can’t capture in a picture.

Inside the old faithful inn. This place never ceases to amaze me. It’s like a tree house.

We got back to the campsite and then after lunch drove to the canyon. It was beautiful. We found a trail to the top of the waterfall that was really cool.

Sorry about my finger…

We had dinner and took Ringo for a walk around the Yellowstone Lake. Pretty sure this lake water made him sick. He’s had diarrhea every 2 hours every night since this photo, but at the time I took it, he was just another cute wet dog and we were dog owners without a care in the world.

First night in Yellowstone

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

We left craters of the Moon and trraveled to Yellowstone NP. It was pretty easy driving but took about 5 hrs. We stopped at Cascades waterfall on the way to our campspot. Then we stopped dropped and rolled to another historic building, the Yellowstone Lake Inn. Somehow we missed this area on our last visit.

#CampgroundChef outdid himself with some tuna smothered with chimichuri with a side of rice and beans. We eat better in the campground than we do at home…

Craters of the moon

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 2 Comments

We were going to stay a while longer in the Sawtooth mtns and Skip our Yellowstone reservations since dogs can’t hike in Yellowstone, but the smoke was so dense we couldn’t justify staying.

We got to craters of the Moon and wow! I 😍 volcanos. We slept in the lava field and took a perfect evening walk to the top of a cinder cone.

Two new things I saw were splatter cones and lava tubes/caves which were really cool.

We had a late dinner but check out this campsite. #campgroundschef made trout which was delicious.

Sawtooth mnts

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Woke up to gorgeous views and got good intel from a native in hikers. Woke up in sunny gulch with this cute t@g view. Then we drove to redfish Sandy Beach to catch the shuttle. Pics of lots of pointing.

We walked up the valley a ways before turning back to bench lakes. The hike was great but we probably all over heated a bit. Here are some of those amazing Sawtooth pics.

The Trail to bench lakes was super dusty with that fine grain dust. I tried to catch it in a picture. The horse flies were an added nuisance but we made it to the beach and even had a pretty amazing sunset at the campsite. All on all a fantastic day even though Ringo found a dead fish at the salmon River and decided to roll around on it. So, we had to wash him under the water pump. We’ve probably scarred him for life. Oh well.

Sawtooth Mtns Campground: Sunny Gulch

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 2 Comments

Drove through the Redfish lake campgrounds even though they all said full… After striking out there, we moseyed over to sunny gulch campground and got a primo spot with a view.

The campground host laughed at us that we thought we would grab a spot in one of the 6 redfish campgrounds… Oh well. We are 2 miles from there. We Plopped our bums in the river and George worked since we have connectivity. We hit their laundry and showers. It was almost like we were there. Admin day. No pictures of our laundry but I assure you that we got everything done. Tomorrow we hike.

Sunny Gulch Campground fast fact: Sunny Gulch Campground has the nicest pit toilet you can hope to have. Leah, I have now experienced your pit toilet happiness experience.

Home is wherever I’m with you

July 11, 2021October 29, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Finished up John Day Fossil and traveled to 10 Mile Campground outside of Boise in the Boise National forest.

Lovely evening. We parked our camp chairs in the creek and stuck our feet in the creek. The temp got to 104 on the way through Boise and I was happy to have Frank as our travel horse (sorry Veronica…)

Idaho tonight! Going, going, Ore-gone

I posted this yesterday, but it cracks me up.

John Day Painted Fossil Beds

July 10, 2021July 11, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / Leave a comment

Left Tumalo Falls heading east towards the Clyde Holiday campground. Hit the John Day Fossil Beds on the way. Really enjoyed the painted hills, but since it was 100 degrees, we waited to go to Sheep Rock for an early morning hike.

The Austin girls will be happy to note that we did make it inside to see the visitor center video, but we had to do it in shifts since we had Ringo. This shows our dedication to both Ringo and the movie. And as George observed probably because one of us can’t have more facts than the other person…

We got a nice camp spot with great connectivity so George got a few hours of shady work. I tested the ac which works fantastic!

Heres the inside of the T@g. It’s much bigger than it looks on the video. The bed appears to be a king.

Newberry National Volcanic Monument

July 9, 2021July 10, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 3 Comments

When we got to the first information sign at the Big obsidian flow there were three boys (age ~ 5-6) pointing at the volcano and making explosion noises. I totally agree, Volcanos are cool!

Newberry is a shield volcano that basically did the same thing as crater lake, exploded then fell in on itself. It had two lakes instead of one with a huge obsidian lava field.

We also took the 4×4 to the rim edge. The view from the top was even cooler. The Ridge can be seen, as well as a cinder cone (2 actually). 2 lakes (East and Paulina), and the lava flow. We had lunch right there on the truck bed.

We stopped at Pauline falls on the way to the Lava Cast Forest. These are hard to see in the pictures. Think slow lava building a wall around a tree and leaving a Hollow trunk mold. I jumped in one for size.

Then we stopped by 2 other breweries for samples. 10 Barrel and Sunriver.

10 Barrel has a set sampler… So we got 16 Oz samples.

Back at the campground we saw this weird camping dump truck. Where do you need that sort of equipment? My t@g was embarrassed for him.

Bird & bees, Smith Rock, Bend

July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 2 Comments

We stayed the day at the Sister’s municipal park campground. I was throwing the ball for Ringo in the park while George was working. I looked up to see a deer about the same time that Ringo saw the deer and he proceeded to chase the deer across the road and get lost. I was frantically searching along the creek and George got in the Taco (Tacoma) and went searching in the neighborhood. This went on for about an hour. I thought the little asshole was a goner forever. George finally went back to the camp ground to put away any valuables and found Ringo humping the neighbors dog. That’s the one thing I wasn’t expecting to be happy seeing Ringo doing.

Next stop petsmart for a dog tag. George asked the clerk if we needed to stick under Ringo’s skin so he would be microchipped? The clerk thought George was a dumbass & George thought the joke was really funny (typical).

Getting on with our day… We knew that we’d see a big rock but had no idea we would get these views of the volcanos. These pictures don’t do it justice.