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Yellowstone 2020 Applications are open!

Yellowstone 2020 Applications are open!

We are opening up the YNP2020 applications early from now on so you Warfighters can plan accordingly to be able to make the trip. This year, Yellowstone is the week of June 21st, 2020 starting on the 20th and ending on the 28th and we will be rebuilding the Canyon horse corrals in the grand canyon district of YNP.

All free and available to any veteran including those chairborne vets, we have…

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“it just doesn’t. fucking. matter.”

hey wild heart, I’d give up everything to see the world in blinding color

21 states: Wyoming. Montana. Washington. California. Oregon. Many more.  Yellowstone National Park. Grand Teton. Glacier. North Cascades. Olympic. Redwood. Crater Lake. Marin. Golden Gate. Lassen. Sequoia. King’s Canyon. Yosemite. Gallatin National Forest. Flathead. Bridger-Teton. Lolo. Lewis & Clark. Olympic. Snoqualmie. Colville. Umpqua. Fremont. Siskiyou. Shasta. Lassen. Sequoia.  The majesty of the Teton range. Gallatin. Absaroka. Washburn. Livingston. Lassen, Holmes, Paintbrush, Ellis, Shadow, Olympic. Cold alpine water at Delta. Grizzly. Solitude. Crater. St. Mary. McDonald. Shoshone.  New and old dens at Bozeman. Gardiner. West. Famous old Jackson. Moose. Seattle. Port Angeles. Forks. North Bend. Brookings. Roseburg. Portland. San Francisco. Orland. Albuquerque. Williams. Fresno. Primm. Las Vegas. Manhattan. Brooklyn. And all the little towns of population: 238, passed through on state roads. Bears: grizzly, black. Gray wolves. Moose. Coyote. Elk. Bison. Fox. Red dog. Ground squirrel. Ram. Mountain goat. Owl. Black and white tailed deer. Mankind's mark on the world on the PCH. One World Trade Center. GGB. Old Faithful Inn. Village Inn. Grand Loop. 101. Going to the sun. All the parkitecture and wooden buildings to gleaming city skylines.

The largest tree on earth. Living on a super volcano. Obsidian. Craters. Glaciers. Pacific & Atlantic. #BLM. You. You know who you are, the forever of my heart.

2020 took me places I never thought I'd get to see, even while under the shadow of the virus. Hoping 2021 takes me to even more beautiful places.

Do you ever hear a piece of music that speaks to you and resonates with you so powerfully that it shapes your whole year? I’m a believer that certain music “finds” you when you need it to, and during this year, no piece of music has done this more than The Dangerous Summer’s Mother Nature album. At the onset of 2020, still riding off a burgeoning but unfocused desire to explore nature more, some hopeful moving plans of mine fell through and, in a moment of uncertainty, I applied to work at Yellowstone National Park. Anyone who follows me here knows how that turned out, but maybe not just how much Mother Nature was a part of that. The album’s broad themes of finding personal identity in the confines of nature was exactly what I needed to hear during the steps I took this year. 

It was with me on my first drive into the park, through the foothills at Gardiner, past Mammoth, under snowfall, through geyser basins, in a bison jam. 

It was with me on weekend trips around the Grand Loop road, winding across the continental divide south of Old Faithful, through pine forests, into the Teton range, inside and outside the park, all around. I listened almost daily. I loved it. It just made sense. It felt good. It’s a part of my identity to the park - since I left, I’ve barely listened to it, instead saving the warm energy it gives me for when I feel that same sense of natural adventure. I still listen to a song here or there, but the whole experience feels like something to listen to while driving through mountains or hiking alpine meadows. Can’t wait to go back.

baby bison

when I fall, I wanna fall way down,

and when I drown, I wanna drown to death

Old Faithful went off right as snow started enveloping the area.

bighorn sheep

well, everything has changed and now it’s only you that matters

endless summer

God will forgive you. But time won’t.

arcade summer

the red dogs aren’t so red anymore

Bozeman, Montana, all in bloom