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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wapiti wander in Grand Teton National Park April 30, 2026.

Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

#bluesky #socialjustice #activism #communit, #mutualaid, #equity “In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

#ThursdayThoughts #PublicLands #hiking #landscapes Every American must protect the Federal Lands they own each and every acre of in equal measure with their more than 300,000,000 fellow citizens. Nominations to lead the National Park Service and BLM are alarming."Local" control is private control.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#SundaySnippet #nature #hiking #wyoming #landscapes Reminiscing about one of the greatest hiking buddies I've ever had. Here Aiko and I descended from The Continental Divide in the Absaroka Range. Teton Wilderness of the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Teton County, Wyoming U.S.A.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#SundaySnippet #nature #wyoming #hiking #landscapes Precipitous cliffs drop to the east from The Continental Divide Crest in the Absaroka, the largest sub-range of the Rocky Mountains. The Divide here is the boundary between the Bridger-Teton NF and the world's first National Forest, the Shoshone.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

#canada #love #commonsense #extortion #wtf To all of you Canadians and Canadiens remember a majority of Americans are grateful for your scarifices with Hitler, the Taliban, etc. on our behalf. tRump must of read C& H before announcing another potential extortion with you over the Howe Bridge.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#waterfallwednesday #nature #hiking #peace #landscapes #publiclands #wyoming #love Scalding water surfaces on Boundary Creek in Yellowstone National Park.Bannock Shoshone for "straight down" dangerous thermal waters mix with the cold creek in several places downstream of 110' high Dunanda Falls

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

#TGIF #FlashbackFriday #FriYay #hiking Hard to beleive it's been 20 years since I spent many weeks backpacking in various places around Greater Yellowstone. Never forget every American Citizen owns evey acre of Federal Land in equal measure. Don't let yourself be disenfranchised of your ownership.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

#hiking #publiclands #landscapephotography #wyoming The remotest peaks of the conterminous United States. 12,156' Younts Peak left of center and 12,058' Thorofare Mt. right of center. Bridger-Teton National Forest, WY. Every American owns every acre of this in equal measure. Don't ever forget that!

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

#hiking #nature #publiclands #mountains #landscapes Like all U.S. Federal Lands as an Aemrican Citizen each and every acre of the Bridger Teton and your first National Forest, the Shoshone, is owned by you in equal measure with every other citizen EVERYWHERE. Don't let yourself be disenfranchised.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

#landscapes #landscapephotography #publiclands #love The Gros Ventre Range beckons in the Bridger-Teton NF from the Union Pass Road. Each and every acre of Federal Land is owned in equal measure by each and every American whether they live adjacent to it or thousands of miles away. Assert ownership!

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

#hiking #love #publiclands #picoftheday Pedicularis groenlandica,Elephant Heads, struggle in August on The Continental Divide;border of the Shoshone and and Bridger-Teton National Forests.Every acre of Federal Land is the property of every American Citizen in equal measure.Assert your ownership!

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

#hiking #nature #mountains #landscapes #landscapephotography #publiclands Ascending Hurricane Pass. Grand Teton National Park.Every acre of Federal Land is the property of every American Citizen in equal measure.Don't let it be sold so rich people can pay FAR lower tax rates than Henry Ford, etc.!

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

#hiking #mountains #nature #landscapes #landscapephtography Whilke ascending The Continental Divide the Lodgepole Pine Forest sheds its blanket in July in the world's first large National Forest; the Shoshone. Every acre you see is the property of every American in equal measure. America Strong.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

#hiking #nature #landscapes #mountains #naturephotography Come June the American Alpine Club's Grand Teton Climbers Ranch opens as a hostel for climbers, hikers, and less ambitious outdoor recreationists.You do not have to be a member but you have to udenrstand what a hostel is and bring bedding.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

#hiking #nature #landscapes #mountains#naturephotography Ampitheater Lake. Grand Teton National Park, wyoming, USA. Jackson Hole Locals are looking for ways to offset the colossal increase in Entrance Fees for International visitors. These are trying times but we will get through this.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

#hiking #nature #naturelandscapes #mountains #naturephotography Brooks Lake and the Pinnacle Buttes from The Continental Divide. Absaroka Range.Taken from just inside the Bridger Teton National Forest.This is America's First National Forest, the Shoshone. Tough times but this land is still yours.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#publiclands #wyoming #politics biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press... I had an awesome hike on Sunday in your first National Forest, the Shoshone. Every acre of our Federal Lands is owned by each and every one of us more than 330,000,000 American citizens in equal measure. Assert your ownership.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#Wyoming #PublicLands #Wildfire We live in divided times;but there are always things we can come together on and be productive.When it comes to wildfire like almost everything I encourage all of us to listen to actual experts and not politicians.Please read ALT text and comment if you wish.

Lower Snow Pack Spring 2025. May 12, 2025

After a glorious fog that lingered until 08:30 or so we are sunny and calm here in Jackson, WY. Although I have to go to Yellowstone Tuesday and Wednesday with as much as 5” of snow forecast for the Lewis Lake area I’m glad to see that higher elevations in the area should get at least one last blast of snow before another as of now likely hotter and drier summer than “normal.” The Snotel Map shows the “snow-water equivalents" from stations for locations across the American West and beyond. If you zoom in on Greater Yellowstone you’ll see quite a bit of red that indicates many of the sites have dropped their snow water equivalents to very low levels. If you’d like to see the data from an individual site I type the name along with “snotel site” into google.

The map shows much of The West to perhaps be slipping towards if not into drought conditions.While most of The Southwest should be at or near normal for precipitation the NOAA Seasonal Forecast Map isn’t encouraging farther North; including Greater Yellowstone.This can be great news for earlier season hikers but of course potentially very bad news for communities in much of the country.The links for those maps follow, but first I’ve got a monumental favor to ask that I think we can all understand wherever we fall on the political spectrum.

Folks, last summer we had a major fire on the eastern periphery of Jackson Hole, the Valley my town is fortunate to be a part of. Fire is something folks across the American West have seen and dealt with for centuries now but when it's in the proverbial backyard it hits home. Wherever it is and at home and wherever we go we can’t prevent every fire,and fire is often beneficial and an excellent resource management tool and overall important component of a healthy, quasi-intact ecosystem like Greater Yellowstone; but as we all know it can also become nothing short of catastrophic. We can’t agree on everything but this summer we can al…

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

A wonderful hike any time but particularly in the early season. It will hopefully look like this in 5 weeks or so.Gros Ventre Wilderness.Bridger-Teton NF. Never Forget that every American, wherever they call home,owns every acre of Federal Land in equal measure. #Hiking #Nature #Wyoming #Publiclands

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#Hiking #Forest The Shoshone National Forest was chosen to be the first for each and every American for many great reasons. Getting up well above the Krumholz atop The Ramshorn Plateau in the Shoshone's Washakie Wilderness satiates souls. The largest sub range of the Rocky Mountains, the Absaroka.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

#Discover #Hiking #Publiclands #Compassion #Wyoming #Landscapephotography #Immigration #America #Politics #Decency See full quote from Anne Frank in photo comment. Brooks Lake and The Continental Divide. Your first National Forest, the Shoshone. Fremont County, Wyoming USA. You own every acre here.

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

#hiking #Wyoming #FederalLands Never forget that whether you live in Wyoming, Wisconsin, Washington, Manhattan, San Francisco, or any other place in America you own each and every acre of Federal Land in equal measure along with your more than 300,000,000 fellow Americans. Don't be disenfranchised.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#hiking #dogs #rockies #photography Aiko having a ball in July on The Continental Divde. Some of the best acreage owned by over 300,000,000 Americans in equal measure. Absaroka Range. Remind the Wyoming State Senate of that. Shoshone National Forest. Wyoming, USA.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#photography #hiking #wyoming #nature #nationalparks Ampitheatre Lake in Grand Teton National Parks requires a little bit of lungbusting to enjoy. A popular dayhike the campsite near Surprise Lake is wonderful, especially without all those dayhikers early in the morning and in the evening.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#hiking #nature #wyoming Ruby enjoying an early Absaroka Range Afternoon. Your Shoshone National Forest.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

#wyoming #nature #mountains Sometimes in June some roads on your National Forests are buried and just a few might be plowed. Shoshone National Forest. Wyoming. USA

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

#hiking #wilderness #wyoming #nature #landscapephotography The Absaroka Range in the Washakie Wilderness of your first National Forest, Greater Yellowstone's Shoshone, is overshadowed by the nearby Tetons and Wind Rivers.Being in a hurry to complete a checklist many people pass by seminal solitude.

Looking down the East Sixmile Creek Drainage from the edge of The Ramshorn Plateau.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

#wyoming #landscapephotography Greening up in the middle of June beneath the Absaroka Range about 15 years ago. Fremont County. Wyoming. USA

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#yellowstone #hiking #wyoming #mountains The false summit of Avalanche Peak. While Mt. Washburn sees far more hikers I think Avalacnhe is exponentially more rewarding. Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming. USA.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#yellowstone #hiking #landscapephotography Scalding thermal water joins Boundary Creek. Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming. USA.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#Yellowstone #hiking #wyoming #nature Dunanda Falls. Boundary Creek. Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming. USA.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The greatest Labor Day Weekend Flowers I ever saw came in 2011.It didn't warm up much at all until the Solstice. Seemed temps jumped 20*F that day and all of a sudden we had summer in the mid 60s.Snowpack water retention throughout the summer was incredible as it was here in September.Jules Bowl.SNF

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

#hiking #wyoming #nature Mid August 2011. Shoshone National Forest. Wyoming. USA.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The Gros Ventre Range with a robust early summer snowpack. Union Pass Road. Bridger-Teton National Forest. wyoming. USA. July 2011

Large snowfields dominate mountain terrain in the Gros Ventre Range to the southwest.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#hiking #wyoming #usa On precipitous cliffs of The Continental Divide. Absaroka Range. The border of the Bridger-Teton National Forest and your first National Forest, the Shoshone. Wyoming. USA.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#hiking #wyoming #mountains The Tetons command the horizon from the southern front of the Absaroka Mountain Range. Bridger-Teton National Forest. Wyoming. USA.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

#hiking #nature #wyoming When the sky starts popping just the other side of The Continental Divide. A moderate hike up to leave immediately. Absaroka Range; Teton Wilderness of the Bridger-Teton National Forest looking right into your first National Forest, the Shoshone.

On The Continental Divide looking east at Brooks Lake and the Pinnacle Buttes.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#hiking #Discover #Wyoming #GrandTeton Looking south rising up the east side of Hurricane Pass. While some "uber" athletes run it in a day now The Teton Crest Trail is one of America's greatest multi-day backpacks. Grand Teton National Park; Wyoming; USA.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Huge gratitude for our neighbors, Mexico and Canada have sent fire fighters and army to help us.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

#Discover #Hiking #Wyoming The Absaroka Range's Ramshorn Massif in your first National Forest, the Shoshone, is my favorite mountain formation in the world. Home to Grizzly Bears, Gray Wolves, other apex predators, and all kinds of other animals, wildflowers, etc. See the ALT texts for more.

Ramshorn Peak rises above Absaroka Ranch in mid June.

The Tetons rise beyond the Pinnacle Buttes from just below the highpoint of the Ramshorn Plateau in early August.

Ramshorn Peak guards the heights of Burroughs Creek in mid June of a very poor spring snowpack.

The Ramshorn from the Union Pass Road about 5 miles from US Highway 26/287.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

#hiking #wyoming #west The State of Mindfulness. Descending The Continental Divide. Absaroka Range. Your first National Forest; the Shoshone. Wyoming USA.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#hiking #wyoming The Absaroka Range's Pinnacle Buttes and Teton Range beyond command the view from point 11,894', the highpoint of the Ramshorn Massif in the Washakie Wilderness of your first National Forest, the Shoshone.Greater Yellowstone's two National Parks make up just 2% of the ecosystem(GYE)

Dramatic and seen from many places in Wyoming's Upper Wind River Valley very few people ever summit the Ramshorn Massif's highpoint let alone the few hundred feet lower but extremely treacherous turret of Ramshorn Peak. This is my favorite mountain massif in the world. The rolling plateau that flirsts with 12,000' (3.66 kilometers) is a sometime home to Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep and occasionally grizzly bears in late summer and early fall consuming massive numbers of Army Cutworm Moths, one of the grizzly's greatest sources of protein. This hike is VERY difficult with exposed scrambling on unstable ground and should not be undertaken by anyone without comprehensive knowledge of the few dangerous routes.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

#Wyoming #america #nature #usa Grand Teton National Park just got a bit bigger. Thanks to the good people of The Grand Teton National Park Foundation and The Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund for making the acquisition of the Kelly Parcel possible. www.gtnpf.org/kelly-parcel...

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KELLY PARCEL PURCHASED AND PRESERVED IN GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK - Grand Teton National Park Foundation | Jackson, WY

KELLY PARCEL PURCHASED AND PRESERVED IN GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK - Maddy

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#hiking #wyoming #naturelovers #bluesky #west #usa #grandteton #nationalpark #america South Teton, Middle Teton, Grand Teton, and Mount Owen shine beyond a couple of local residents.Please see the ALT text for a message about a serious threat to millions of acres of Federal Lands in the western US.

Please take less than two minutes to read this.Grand Teton National Park only occupies about 2% of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.Yellowstone National Park only occupies about 10% of the ecosystem.The GYE is the greatest mammalian habitat of the Northern Temperate Zone and across portions of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming it is the size of New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined.The bulk of the ecosystem is found across a half dozen of America's most spectacular National Forests with quite a few large wilderness areas.Wherever we live in the world as Americans we own each and every acre of ALL of our Federal Lands in equal measure with our more than 300,000,000 fellow citizens.There are forces working for deceitful, destructive, and avaricous agendas behind a lawsuit brought by the state of Uah and singed onto by a dozen other states including Wyoming that is trying to disenfranchise all but a provebial handful of the wealthiest Americans of this citizenship right and put millions of acres of Federal Lands under "local" control.Don't indulge nefarious mantras. This is not about jobs, it is about greed and in my opinion handicapping our children's future. Let your own congressional representatives and the leaders of Utah and a half dozen other states like Wyoming know your Federal Lands are not for sale and will not be stolen. These states FOREVER ceded contol of these lands in their state constitutions as a condition of statehood. Make them honor their commitments. Whatever your politics may be if you don't want that proverbial handful of people stealing Federal Lands please consider supporting organizations like The Public Lands Alliance, The Public Lands Foundation, The Conservation Lands Foundation, The Trust for Public Land, National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Outdoor Alliance, and the Foundation for America's Public Lands. Thank you for your time and never forget that freedom only rings when it rings for all of us.

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Absarokanaut @absarokanaut.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#hiking #wyoming #usa #wilderness #west #naturelovers #bulesky #west #america #grandteton With the snow piling up outside here in Jackson, WY my older bones are yearning for July. Get out there and have a great trip around the sun folks. Taylor Mt. Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Wyoming, USA.

With the right timing this wonderful hike includes one of the greatest wildflower displays you'll ever see in Coal Creek Meadows. Looking north from Taylor Mt. in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest to the Grand Teton and Mount Moran in Grand Teton National Park. Wyoming, USA.

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