Not wanting to carry it all day we decided to pick it up on our way back. Nothing needed to be said about what we were accomplishing - it was all too evident. Our only hope is by setting an example others will follow suit. From the Grand Tetons we poked our way through Yellowstone National Park and exited via its east entrance. We had a two-hour window in which to go through the gate because of a large fire in the area around the road.
Fire season is in full swing with several areas on their highest alert.
Unfortunately, unsupervised campfires this season started two of the largest fires. One of our goals when talking with people about the luxury and responsibility of campfires is to teach alternatives to having a campfire when one is not appropriate. And in our next three nights of camping and backpacking in the Absaroka mountain range of Wyoming we had no intentions of having a campfire. Shane Riffle, the camping services director at Ralph J. Stolle Countryside YMCA, invited us on this backpacking trip into the Absarokas. Besides getting a chance to hike in grizzly country, our involvement was to lend a Leave No Trace presence and talk about how to minimize human impacts through teachable moments.