Day 6, May 16 Snow. And lots of it. That’s what we were dealing with the moment we stepped outside at 4:15am. Three to four inches had fallen in Silver Gate overnight and it was still coming down. Just as with my last early morning drive to Hayden Valley and the Lake, I was dealing with some brutal visibility behind

Day 3, May 13 I finally got Jenn into the park. Unfortunately, I couldn’t produce a ton of mammal sightings that would draw her out of the car, but the birds were pretty great once again. We drove through an empty Lamar Valley on our way to Slough Creek, where I knew a big crowd would be staking out the

For the last decade or so, I’ve written live trip reports from Yellowstone during my trips.  The first several reports from my 2015 spring trip were posted on the Yellowstone.net forums, as in years past.  We switched over to the new site and blog during my trip, so I’ve transcribed the reports here. Day 0, May 10 We departed two

As I write this, my new website design isn’t even live yet.  I’m hoping that all of the content will be migrated to the new server in the coming days, or at least by the time I reach Yellowstone. It’s time for my annual spring adventures in the park.  As many of you know, I’ve faithfully posted trip reports from

Welcome to the newly-redesigned MaxWaugh.com, or “MW3.0,” as I’ve been calling it the past seven years or so.  That’s how long I’ve been envisioning a redesign, and I can finally say with some pride–actually, more like relief–that we’ve made some progress.  Unfortunately, this transition is not going to be entirely smooth.  I felt it was best to make the change