Yellowstone backcountry camping

Where is the bush toilet? Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, August 2009

On the shore of Heart Lake the campsite 8J6. Such a beautiful place in the Yellowstone backcountry with a stream for drinking water close by.
A map you find here: Heart Lake Backcountry Campsites
 

campsite 8J6

We stayed here two nights (and it was our last camp at this 12 day / 11 nights hiking trip). What an incredible scenery with wonderful sunsets over Mt. Sheridan.


And there was Silence (a previous post) with the lake in different light.

Andreas preparing the fire wood, the toilet sign on his right

A box toilet, in the middle of a meadow, behind the camp

The bear pole with some huge Grizzly claws

Thomas

Heart Lake with Mt. Sheridan

I love this place. I love wilderness. And this hiking was one of the best adventure I've ever had.

Linked to signs, signs and to Sky Watch Friday

Cloud over Yellowstone Lake

South Arm Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, August 2009

Linked to Weekend Reflections.

Where the wolves howl

The very most end of the South Arm from Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, August 2009

Yes, here it was.
I like to remember the night in our tent at our backcountry campsite 5L2. (Some hundred meters from the lake.)

We heard wolves holing!
Just incredibel. What a sound. No fear. Awesome. I loved it. Can't forget it. True wilderness.
It was summer. A cold night. We snuggled up all together in our thiny tent.

"We listened for a voice crying in the wilderness. And we heard the jubilation of wolves!"

 – Durwood L.Allen –

I link this to Sky Watch Friday, Weekend Reflections. Straight Out Of the Camera Sunday and  to Scenic Sunday

Evening sky at Mariposa Lake

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, August 2009

Linked to Sky Watch Friday.

Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, August 2009

From our wilderness trip.

This is my ABC Wednesday for the letter Y.
Linked to Sky Watch Friday.

Heart Lake

Heart Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, August 2009.

More reflections from this lake and some information from our family backpacking wilderness trip in this post

Linked to Weekend reflections hosted by James in Pennsylvia.
Thanks, James!

Sunrise over the lake

Yellowstone National Park, USA, August 2009.
Somewhere in the wild, on our hiking tour. I mentoined our wilderness trip in this post before.

This shot is part of The Weekend in Black and White.

Self-Portrait with Rucksack

Taken at the end of our wilderness trekking in Yellowstone National Park, USA, August 2009.
This was a big adventure. And we arrived happly back at our car. The backpack was relativly light now. We had nearly no food left.

For more information see this old post "silence" from last year December 5th.

Silence

Heart Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, 28th August 2009, 17:24 h


Heart Lake, 28th August 2009, 19:13h


Heart Lake, 29th August 2009, 5:59h

My memories are full of impressions from our hiking and backpacking (or trekking?) tour in Yellowstone. 11 days (better nights) in the wilderness. It' s to hard to tell. OUTSTANDING.

Just our family, my husband, our two boys and me. Of course we had to carry all our foud and equipment on our own. And the little boy, too.

It was fantastic, fabulous, great! Sleeping in our tent, hiking without seeing any other people, crossing rivers, drinking from the creeks, watching wild animals ...

I love nature. And silence.