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Your host reveals tips on how to save Money and Time during your Yellowstone vacation with over 60 years of personal experience in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and his family has been visiting the area since 1919. Learn about alternative airports you can fly into to save money on flights as well as money saving Lodging tips where you can stay for less than $100.00 per night right outside of Yellowstone Park saving you thousands of dollars on your Yellowstone vacation before you even arrive. Then hear how to save time inside the parks and listen to the podcasts which are set up section by section as you drive your car through the parks so you won't miss anything. Know where and when to see bears, wolves and other wildlife. Discover easy yet virtually unknown trails that lead to hidden back country pools, mud pots and waterfalls where you will have the entire place to yourselves. See Old Faithful from the best vantage point and also catch Grand Geyser which is the largest predictable geyser in the world and get sprayed with water that hit the ground as rain over 400 years ago from Beehive. Visit the Upper and Lower Falls and the gorgeous Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and see them from the best and most historic vantage points including the famous Moran bench. Take a mountain bike ride to hidden waterfalls and back country geysers and visit a petrified forest where you will see 50 million year old trees. I will even tell you how and when to visit the seldom seen Bechler region of the park which holds 70% of the parks waterfalls and where you can swim in hot pools and walk behind 200' tall waterfalls.You will also learn the best day hikes and biking opportunities in Grand Teton as well as the not to be missed stops along the way. I will also give you info on where to stay and dine in Jackson Hole and West Yellowstone so listen up if you want to explore Yellowstone like a local!
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In this podcasts, we cover the elimination of what was a REALLY unpopular BMA (Bear Management Area) and the opening of a new one in Hayden Valley and how this should make those early park visitors trip better to Yellowstone. We then go over the dates you can start flying into the seasonal airport of West Yellowstone and on what airlines and how to save money on your flights. We then go over some fun drawings for great prizes for everyone who buys a guidebook as well as discussing how James Bond 007 got arrested over the winter in Yellowstone.
In this podcast, we discuss the launch of our new You Tube videos that you guys can watch to determine if you want to purchase a guidebook for your families Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park vacation. We go over 7 new videos for you guys including the following. 1. introduction to Explore Yellowstone Like a Local. 2. Getting to the Old Faithful Geyser Basin where you will hear Elk Bugle and see tons of great videos all along the roads you will be driving on including some great videos of geysers erupting. 3. The North Loop of Yellowstone where you will find Bears and Wolves as well as the best Mammoth Hot Springs has to offer as well as the largest petrified forest on earth and all the fun things to do on the north loop. 4. The South Loop where we will visit the glorious Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and learn how the guidebook keeps you out in front of all the other tourists so you can have the entire area to yourself. And then we pass through the Hayden Valley and the largest Bison heard on earth on our way to the best of Yellowstone Lake. 5. We then travel down to the Grand Tetons and go over all the best stops on our way to Jackson Hole. 6. We also cover our monthly drawing for everyone who buys a guidebook where you can get some free swag. 7. Lastly, we cover how the guidebook is a great gift for Valentine's Day, or any other day for that matter. Plus we listen to some really obscure music!!!
1This podcast covers 19 great places that you can swim, get in a hot pot, get under a huge waterfall and swim in Yellowstone Park and you can visit these spots whenever the park is open. I get you to the some of the most fantastic swimming and hot potting spots that can't be found anywhere else on earth. We cover the stupidly popular Firehole swimming area near Madison Junction which USED to be a great local place to swim but is now simply overrun with hundreds of people every day all day long but has been closed for the last few years and why it might stay closed from here on out. By visiting MY places, you can have the entire place to yourself for as long as you want them. I then tell you where you can get right into and underneath 4 huge waterfalls and have their thermally heated water pouring all over you. And where you can soak in numerous hot pots throughout the park. I also cover the best and safest spot to take small kids who want to take a dip while they are on their Yellowstone vacation.
This podcast covers all the fun things you can do just outside of Grand Teton and Yellowstone parks. There is a reason that hardly any of the locals from West, Jackson or Big Sky ever go into the parks and the reason for that is that there is a TON of really fun and exiting things to do right outside the parks boundaries that are NOT allowed inside the parks. We cover how West Yellowstone is the Fly Fishing capital of the world and why movie stars, sports stars, planes full of Russians and now you flock to West Yellowstone to go fly fishing and you might catch up to 75 trout on your first day. We then cover where to rent and ride ATV's including the new and very safe side by side units on the best trails in the US right outside YNP. I then tell you how you can ride on the unbelievable Idaho Dunes where you can ride a bad ass unit up and down 500' tall sand dunes on one of the largest dune complexes in the world that are only an hours drive from both Jackson Hole and West Yellowstone. Then we jump on a mountain bike and ride along the wildflower strewn meadows of the easy Rendezvous Trail right in West Yellowstone then hit the CDT Trial to ride in what looks like a picture postcard. We also cover and advanced mountain biking tours to the very seldom seen Goose and Otter Lakes and how I can help you get on trails suited to your groups abilities no matter who is riding with you. We then go over the best places to white water raft, kayak and SUP. We cover the Gallatin River where they filmed the movie A River Runs Through It with Brad Pitt and its 30 super fun named rapids with an end of the day jump off the Presidents Bridge. As well as the Bear Trap Canyon which is one of the top 10 1 day floats in the US where you will run the world famous Kitchen Sink Rapids. We discuss padding your own SUP or kayak on the calm turquoise waters of a lake which look like you are in the Caribbean or down a river where you might see a moose or two up close. We then cover boating on Lake Hebgen where you can find a couple rope swings to get wet on a warm day or catch a record trout on Lake Henrys. And we cover the wonderful Big Sky area and all it has to offer including golf for the boys and a spa day for the girls while the kids enjoy hunting for gold or riding the Zip Lines. We finish off the podcast rising Razors on 400' tall sand dunes with are located right outside the boundaries of both Yellowstone and Grand Teton.
This podcast covers hiking in both Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. I first cover hiking in Grand Teton and get you right up into the craggy spires of the Tetons where the peaks are shooting up all around. We then cover Teton hikes that are totally suitable for small kids with fantastic views of the Tetons and also tell you the hikes you should avoid. Then we cover the best of the best day hikes in Yellowstone where you can get off the beaten path and away from all the crowds and explore some of the best hot pools and geysers in the Yellowstone backcountry where you will have the entire place to yourself and most of these great spots are not shown on any maps. And you will be in spots that less than 100 visitors have been since the inception of the park in 1872!We then cover longer and overnight hikes in Yellowstone and then cover the beautiful Bechler Region of Yellowstone also known as the Cascade Corner section of the park where 80% of the parks waterfalls are located and where you can soak in a hot pot all afternoon at the base of a huge waterfall or swim in Mr. Bubbles, the largest natural hot pot in the park. I then get you to a spot where you can swim in a hot stream after you got soaked at the base of Union Falls which is the largest double falls on earth and is the cover shot for the guidebook. I cover what maps you will need and how to reserve a backcountry campsite and tell you the best ones to get and where to hike when most of the park might be snowed in and I also give you a bunch of hikes which are suitable for small children who are big hikers. I even cover some outer edge hikes that are still in Yellowstone Park but are located where you don't have to enter the main park gates and fight all the traffic and crowds just to do a bit of day hiking. I even cover the best hikes where you can take you dog along with you. This is a big podcast but I only cover the best of the best hikes in both parks and get you to some truly remarkable places where you can Explore Yellowstone and Grand Teton like a local!!
This podcast covers the section of road south from Old Faithful down to West Thumb and then down to the South Gate and then we drive along the seldom seen but beautiful Flagg Ranch/Marysville/Grassy Lake Road.You will hear a story about how not to hike in bear country then we stop at the only lake in the US that flows into both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. We visit a great picture spot that where you can see just how big Yellowstone Park really is then talk about a not so great hike to Heart Lake that my dad used to drive to in the 1950's. And then possibly the best kayak adventure you will ever experience on Lewis and Shoshone Lakes and my futile effort at it once which really pissed me off. I also tell you about how you can swim and possibly cliff jump in the warm waters of Moose Falls with the water pouring all over you and its just a minute from your car. Then we take a short drive on the rarely used Marysville/Grassy Lake/Flagg Ranch Road to a great backcountry hike to Cascade Acres and the gorgeous Terraced Falls which is a hike totally suitable for kids but is rarely used as no one even knows it exists.
This podcast covers the section of road from Canyon all the way down to West Thumb. We will cross into the Hayden Valley which is home to the largest free roaming herd of Bison on earth and hear a couple of great stories that took place right where you are now driving. We then make a stop at the Mud Volcanoes then hit Yellowstone Lake where I will regale you with a very personal near death story about yours truly and where you can see where I worked as a kid and then where you can hit the beach along the lake. . We will listen to a little Mozart while we sip a cocktail on a beautiful veranda at the Lake Hotel before we dine at the best restaurant in the park. We talk about how you can rent a boat so you can explore the gorgeous Yellowstone Lake from the water. And we will finish it off with what has become one of the more popular spots my explorers and a spot that 99.9% of people just drive right past because it looks like a pile of rocks, which it is, but what a hip pile of rocks it really is!
This podcast starts at the rather boring Tower Junction which is home to the rather fun Chuckwagon Dinner that starts at the Roosevelt Stables. We then drive through the Narrows on the way to Tower Falls and I tell you how to not only see the falls but about the crazy boulder that used to sit it's summit and then how to access the Yellowstone River from the viewing platform that hardly anyone knows about in the guidebook. We then continue along the North Loop and summit Mount Washburn and I tell you where NOT to hike as well as where you SHOULD hike in this area on a great hike the a is one of the best for small kids. And as usual, I throw in a couple of short stories about sleeping with an Elk and skateboarding down Dunraven Pass before I tell you where you can find the elusive Moose like they were let out of a pen in the evening.
This podcast covers the section of the road from Tower Junction all the way through the NE entry gate to Silver Gate and Cooke City. You will pass through the glacially boulder strewn lower and then upper Lamar Valley's where the Wolves of Yellowstone hunt in packs and I also get you to the best spots to see a Grizzly Bear as well as thousands of Bison. We also hear one of the funniest stories that ever occurred in Yellowstone in the second or Upper Lamar Valley. And then see what used to be the ocean floor along Pebble Creek where you can see fossilized fish and sea shells that used to rest on the bottom of an ocean.We also cover the spot where you an see some 1000' tall seasonal waterfalls as well as Trout Lake and Ice Box Canyon. As well as the number one rated scenic drive in America-The Bear Tooth Highway. Then finally, if you got shut out seeing a bear in the park... Never fear, I have the solution for you to still be a hero and win that father of the year prize and it's foolproof!!
This podcast covers starts in Gardiner Montana where you can grab a cheese burger at the place that was one of the inspirations for Jimmy Buffet to write the song Cheeseburger In Paradise. Then on the NEW road after the 2022 floods to Mammoth Hot Springs and we start at the iconic stone entry gate made famous by Teddy Roosevelt and his rough riders, pass a few cars on the way through the gate and save a LOT of time and then onto Tower Junction. We also discuss how the Roaring Springs Swimming Area is now gone and how the guidebook has all the places you CAN go Swimming and Hot Potting in the Park. This 18 mile section of road is also known as Bear Alley and is the best place to see black bears in the park and I will tell you when is the best places to see them and also give you a couple of other options just in case they are not on the main road. I also tell you about a great place to see a bear out in the backcountry which is a once in a lifetime opportunity for your trip to Yellowstone on a great trail and a place where you can see a Pika which looks like Mickey Mouse. And even if you get shut out seeing a bear in Yellowstone and your kids are freaking out to see a bear, I tell you how to get them off your back with a 100% guaranteed way to see, not only bear, but wolves, eagles and even thrown in some Otters for good measure. And as usual, I throw in a couple of stories for you guys as you drive along and a good lesson for those newbies to park off the roads.
This podcast covers the 21 mile section of road on the west side of the upper loop in Yellowstone park from Norris Geyser Basin to Mammoth Hot Springs. Included in this podcast is a quick summation of why you shouldn't stop at Norris Geyser Basin, plus some fun and rather interesting stops along the road towards Bunsen Peak. We also cover the start of Bear Country in Yellowstone and where you should start looking for them. Then I give you the details on a great mountain bike, then hike to Osprey Falls which is a great backcountry waterfall which is the cover shot of this podcast. As well as the best places to see the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs as well as a really funny story about a ranger and his girlfriend. For a little icing on the cake, I tell you where you can sit on a 36 million year old petrified tree stump and possibly the funniest story of them all.
This podcast covers the section of road between Norris Geyser Basin and the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone Park which is home to the most awe inspiring thing in the park, the Lower Falls which sits in the namesake canyon for Yellowstone Park. There is not much to see along this short section of road but we do see the gorgeous Virginia Cascades along the way and discuss a few great hikes for kids and where you can find the elusive Bullwinkle the Moose. Plus we hear a great story about 2 kids from Italy walking behind a monster Grizzly Bear like it was a pet on a leash. When we get to the Canyon Area, we discuss how the guidebook gets you to all the best stops in the Canyon area at the RIGHT TIME so we stay ahead of all the other tourists as we see everything there is to see in this wonderful area. I also tell you about a park visitor who I met at Artist Point who had been in the park and didn't believe that I could get her to the best spots without anyone else around. We also discuss how the guidebook gets you to the actual place Thomas Moran painted his famous painting and its NOT Artist Point. We also cover what may very well be the best hike in all of Yellowstone which surprisingly enough, rarely has a lot of people on it with amazing views of the canyon and gets you right down next to the surging and beautiful Yellowstone River. And as usual, I tell you some fun stories along the way.
This podcast covers the 14 mile section of road from Madison Junction to Norris Geyser Basin which is home to Steamboat Geyser which USED to be the largest geyser on the planet. Along the way I will tell you about a rather interesting car wreck as well as 3 great hikes. The first is right to the base of Gibbon Falls where the trail actually goes into the river in spots and where you can have the warm waters of Gibbon Falls cascading down all over you as well as a great swimming & fishing spot right at the base of the falls. I then describe to you the Gibbon Meadow backcountry geyser area where you will find all sorts of colored pools, mud pots, fumaroles and geyser pools that erupt constantly. This area is truly in the backcountry but is only a short hike from your car and is a truly hidden gem in Yellowstone that less than a hundred people have seen since the inception of the park in 1872 and gets you to the beautiful Evening Primrose Spring. I then tell you about a great hike that is suitable for even the smallest hiker in your group and when you should do it. I will also tell you about a really interesting and somewhat weird spot along the Gibbon River that is only 20' from the road but is hidden by trees so hardly anyone knows its there where you can find the only active "needle" in the park as well as some of the oddest rocks in the river that you can get right in the river for a nice swim and a great pic. I will also cover Norris Geyser Basin which is by far and away my least favorite stop in the park and I tell you why you shouldn't stop here unless you have a couple weeks to kill in the park.
This podcast covers the section of road from the South Gate of Yellowstone Park all the way down to Jackson Hole. We will drive down the far side of the Yellowstone Volcano then have breakfast with a great view of the Tetons. We then get to the spot to take a picture from the most photographed view of the Tetons. Then we visit Jenny Lake and I tell you how to get right down into the waters of this gorgeous lake without any people around then we ride the ferry boat to Inspiration Point. Then we will hike right into the teeth of the Grand Tetons and hear a great story about Lake Solitude and how it plays an important part of my families history in the area even before the Grand Teton's were named a national park. We then cover my three favorite hikes in the upper Teton Range and I also tell you where NOT to hike. We finish off this great day with my favorite stop which will warm your heart. Then we go to the best spot to find the elusive Bullwinkle and then ride the gondola at the ski area up to a high mountain bistro.
In this podcast, we visit the really fun town of Jackson Hole we go over all the fun stuff to do in this world famous town. We gloss over all my favorite spots to stay in Jackson Hole which are all listed in the guidebook including a great budget option which is REALLY hard to find in a VERY expensive town. We even gloss over the ranches and lodges where you can stay with great views of the Tetons right off your front porch. We go over all the the best places that are covered in the guidebook where you can get some nice meals on one easy street then my secret spot where you can dine right in front of the Tetons as the sun sets behind them with zero crowds and even more recommendations that have withstood the test of time in a town where restaurants seem to come and go faster than the seasons. I then help you find the place where you can drown your sorrows while sitting in an actual saddle at the World Famous Million Dollar Cowboy Bar and how I have met some really famous people in town. And I'll tell you about the best Karaoke bar you've ever been to and then we have a great time at the Snow King Ski Area and all the fun stuff to do there that is listed in the guidebook. And I of course regale you with some great stories of my adventures in Jackson Hole.
In this one huge day in Yellowstone, we will visit the Upper and Lower Falls and the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. We will then head down the road and across the Hayden valley which is home to the largest free roaming Bison herd on the planet on our way to the Mud Pots for a quick stop then have the best lunch in the park at the beautiful Lake Hotel and drive along the shore line of this beautiful lake. And finish off the Yellowstone Lake area with a stop at the remnants of the last eruption that occurred in Yellowstone Park just 150,000 years ago. We will finish the day at Old Faithful and catch Beehive, Castle, Daisy, Riverside and the largest predictable geyser in the world-Grand Geyser. We finish the day at the Iconic Old Faithful Inn with a drink in the hippest bar in the US and then watch the sunset over Grand Prismatic Pool. The most photographed pool in the world and make one last stop on the way out at Park Mountain and hear the story of the 3 Brothers Peaks. A spot that was vitally important to Yellowstone being the designated as the first National Park in the world and we do it all in one huge day in Yellowstone Park.
This podcast covers the little town of West Yellowstone. We go over nice places to stay and where to find a cozy lakefront or riverside cabin to use as your home away from home as you visit Yellowstone Park. We cover some really great in town dining options including an award winning pizza and where you can take your picture in front of a huge Bison just before dinner as well as some really great places to eat a short drive away including the really fun Happy Hour Bar where you might get "honked", the beautiful Elk Lake Camp and a place where you can dine in one of the 1000 places to visit before you die. And just in case you got shut out seeing a bear in the park and your daughter is distraught and inconsolable, I tell you where you can still be a hero and see Grizzly Bears, Wolves and even some Otters and even an IMAX for a little icing on the cake and then drop them off for a little zip lining while you go have a much deserved beer. All this and you are only a block away from the entrance to Yellowstone Park and I of course regale you with some more fun stories of my adventures in and around West Yellowstone including a great story about an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser and old Snaggletooth, the most famous Grizzly Bear in Yellowstone and where you can still see him. I even include " tent clamping" at spots right outside the park and where you can park your RV or Motorhome and finish everything off with our new Winter Chapter for those of you that might want to visit Yellowstone in the winter.
This podcast covers how the Guidebook tells you everything you need to know about how to watch all the geysers go off in this one of a kind area which is home to more geysers than the rest of the world combined. We cover all the major geysers in this one of a kind area and how the guidebook easily gets you to them all by teaching you to "work the geyser basin". You will hear how the guidebook gets you to the best spot to watch Old Faithful from but far more importantly, it gets you to Riverside, Castle, Daisy and the largest predictable geyser on earth-Grand and gets you to these great geysers at the correct time. And I explain how Grand is not to be missed during any vacation to Yellowstone. We also stop by Morning Glory Pool and even make a stop at the seldom seen Artemesia Geyser as well as Great Fountain which graced the cover on the park map for decades. By the end of the day, you will have seen every geyser in the largest collection of geysers on the planet and also visited Lone Star and Great Fountain and spent one glorious day seeing the best geysers found anywhere on earth simply by following the Geyser Day Chapter in the Guidebook.
This podcast explores the action packed 16 mile section of road between Madison Junction down to Old Faithful and we catch all the rest of the geyser basins on our way to the Old faithful area. We cross the Gibbon River on our way to the beautiful Firehole Canyon Drive where we will see the gorgeous Firehole Falls, the Firehole Swimming Area as well as other fun stuff on this beautiful side road. We then hit the Firehole Flat Drive and see the oldest grave of a woman in the park and hear a near death story of how another woman nearly lost her life in the same area as well as a bunch of Bison and their Red Dog Calves that frequent this area and 3 great day hikes. We then see Hells Half Acre on our way to the Fountain Paint Pots and and then hit Firehole Lake Drive which is home to Great Fountain Geyser and talk to a crazy old woman and then see Firehole Lake and talk about the 3 Senses Nature Trail and how you can still do it today. We then make stops at Fairy Falls to access the best place to see Grand Prismatic and then hit Bisquit Basin and the three really fun things you can do from here. Next we hit Black Sand Basin and then I tell you all the great things to see in the iconic Old Faithful Inn. Lastly, we go over one of the main reasons I wrote the guidebook in the first place when I tell you about how I found the seldom seen Rabbit Creek Area and see the 3rd largest pool on earth all by yourself. We then hit Old Faithful and I tell you how the Guidebook then takes over so you can have a great day "working" the geyser basin and not miss a thing. All along the most action packed stretch of road in the park.
Everything you need to know to save Time and Money and plan a successful trip to Yellowstone is in this podcast. And note that everyone should join our Explore Yellowstone Like a Local Facebook Group where you can read hundreds of great reviews of the guidebook and see thousands of pictures you guys have posted having a great time in the park. We cover WHEN you should plan to arrive in Yellowstone to take advantage of the best weather and the lowest crowds. Then we cover WHERE you should stay to quickly and easily access the best of Yellowstone Park and go over some money saving lodging options that are spelled out in the guidebook where you can save thousands of dollars on you lodging and we even throw in some clever ways on how to save money on your food costs. We then go over my 2 Important Tips you simply must follow to have a great vacation to the parks. Such as how to make a plan of where you are going and what you are going to see in Yellowstone Park so you can break the park down into areas that you can easily see in one day. We also cover how you can beat the traffic going into and then out of the parks. Then we discuss how the new Rating System works for all the sites in the parks as well as my new Suggested Itineraries that you can follow to make the most of what time you have to explore the worlds first national park. I also tell you how you can win a free t-shirt for everyone in your family and also how you can help protect the parks by policing the park in the moment with you phone. And if you want even more info, be sure and watch our You Tube video titled Introduction to Explore Yellowstone Like a Local.
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