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  • Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho

    Beautiful. Remote. Perfect.

    I didn’t know it at the time, but this would be Ruby Jean’s final night at camp.

    Ruby Jean's final campsite

  • Dispersed Camping on the Green River

    Meanwhile, 90 minutes from the nearest small town and cell signal…

  • Secret Scriabin

    I wonder how many cowboys riding by on their horses imagined the kind of music that was happening in that little off-grid trailer…

  • Green River Lake

    My time in the Big Horns was some of the most peaceful camping I’ve ever done. But eventually it was time to move on and the Wind River Range was calling my name…

  • Cell Phone Signal?

    This was the only place in the Big Horn range where I could get a cell phone signal.
    Too bad the views were awful.

    The only cell phone signal in the Big Horn mountains?

  • Medicine Wheel

    Located on Medicine Mountain, the Medicine Wheel is one of North America’s most well preserved Native American sacred places.

    It’s at least 250 years old. Even today, the site is sacred to many different tribes across the US.

    Medicine Wheel

    Offerings tied to the rope fence or left within the wheel are from those who have made the pilgrimage to the site. Ceremonies still take place here regularly.

    Offerings

    I was accompanied by crows during my hike out. A few even stopped and talked with me for a while.

    Crow conversations