Wyoming

General information

Wyoming is a place where there's quite a distance between towns, roads, filled by ranches, mountains, forests, and wilderness. You can go for miles or days without seeing anyone else. When you do pass someone on the road going the opposite direction, everybody waves hello.

There are several very beautiful mountain ranges in Wyoming. Some of the lower hills, mostly along Interstate 80, are covered in wind turbines.

Dad's favorite fishing spot

Places

Pinedale

This town south of Jackson and north of Green River is an outpost for many natural gas rigging companies, ranchers, sporting people, and wilderness adventurers. To the northeast are striking, glacier-cut mountains, to the south, prairie, and to the west a mountain range where my dad goes fishing.

For an example of the complexity of the natural gas operations in the area, see the study of a proposed helium and methane station at http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/NEPA/pfodocs/RandsButte.html , which includes paleontology, earthquake risk assessment, and a sense of the history of gas exploration in the region.

On a hike through Bridger National Forest, near Middle Piney Lake

Bridger-Teton National Forest

The northern part of this forest includes the Grand Tetons, northwest of Jackson and the southern half Bridger Forest, west of Pinedale. We've camped at Sacajawea Campground and Middle Piney Lake, in the Big Piney Ranger District.