Backpacking the Teton Crest & a Return to Yellowstone
It had been just over a year since my family and I last visited Yellowstone National Park. In that time, everything shifted — my wife Julie passed away after a long fight with cancer, and I moved from Illinois to Colorado to begin a new chapter. Returning to northwestern Wyoming — where Julie and I met and spent nearly every year of our marriage — felt both painful and necessary, a step toward reconnecting with a place that shaped so much of our life together.