After Dinosaur, I overnighted briefly in my current-favorite mountain town of Pinedale on the way up to Montana to visit a friend and catch a couple events I’d been invited to. And between a meadow hike, Spire Rock Gym’s first ever LGBT climbing night, a hike to a waterfall, the Livingston Farmer’s Market, my first bar-crawl since Covid in Bozeman, a short run along the river, the Livingston Roundup rodeo/market/parade at which I bought a piece of art made out of aspen bark from a wildfire, and a drag brunch-for-dinner in which we had a friend performing, I’d say I packed a lot of fun into a small number of days. Livingston makes a great vacation.
Having reached the north-most point on this adventure, I headed back down to Pinedale for a couple days. But unlike the trip up where I bypassed the park through Idaho, I took the eastern half of the Grand Loop road in Yellowstone along the lake and US-191 along the Tetons.
