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Day 10, September 11, 2025
Drive Day: Victoria, Idaho to Virgin, Utah Back on the road again. Today is a full day in the car. Here are some pics from the road. we covered 571 miles and around 20 mph winds for a good chunk of time. 😑 Sat Lake City and the various suburbs seemed to go on forever…
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Day 9, September 10, 2025
Victor, Idaho Last night we ate at a local restaurant called the Knotty Pine. We all had great meals, especially the trout! While there, we made a plan for today. We decided to do some hiking in the Targhee National Forest in Teton County. It is adjacent to the Grand Tetons National Park. Our campground…
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Day 8, September 9, 2025
Travel day. Driving from Yellowstone to Grand Tetons, Wyoming It is a two hour drive. Barely out of the park and we had to stop for these horse riders. I read that riding horses is a favorite in the Tetons. Dave says ‘no way’. So I guess this is the only pic of horses you’ll…
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Day 7; Monday, September 8, 2025
Today is our last full day at Yellowstone. It is truly a beautiful and amazing place. Today we chose an area that we haven’t heard much about and had not checked out yet. Mammoth Falls. On the way, we watched the bison again and here they are roaming. We chose a 5 mile moderately strenuous…
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Day 6; September 7, 2025
We are still thoroughly enjoying Yellowstone National Park. We seem to be fairly lucky with the wildlife. Here is a lone bison along one of the roads we were on. Look at these elk crossing the road Went on a great hike to Fairy Falls Here is Fairy Falls From here we checked out a…
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Day 5, September 6, 2025
Yellowstone National Park is truly amazing. This morning we started out around 7:30 and within about 5-10 minutes driving into the park, we saw a bear! So exciting! We think he is a brown black bear, but not positive. It was probably 50 yards from the truck. Then almost right after the bear we saw…
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Day 4, September 5, 2025
First full day in Yellowstone. We ate at the Slippery Otter Pub last night. Our waitress advised us that to see bears and wolves we needed to be at the park before or by sunrise. So we left this am at 5:00 am. We headed to Lamar Valley area which was over an hour and…
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Day 3, September 4, 2025
Today we took an amazing scenic drive from the Bear Lodge to west Yellowstone Park. We have a campsite in West Yellowstone that we will use the entire time while we are visiting Yellowstone. The drive was fairly slow, but amazing! We decided to go to Old Faithful area today. We hit the jack box…
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Fall ‘25; Day 2
7:30 am: it is a balmy 58 degrees when we packed up to leave Rapid City. Today, we are heading to Big Bear Lodge in Dayton Wyoming. We got some groceries in a town called Sheridan (last town with a Walmart for quite a few miles). An hour or so later we arrived at our…
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Fall 2025, Day 1
On Tuesday, September 2, Dave and I left for a trip out west. On this trip we are going with our friends Bill and Deb McDermott. Today, we left around 6 AM and had a fairly uneventful ride to Rapid City, South Dakota., arriving around 3 pm., drove 598 miles. Dave and I took a…
Dave and Nellies Adventures 