by Daniel J. Smith | Mar 31, 2024 | geoBlog
What Sharks and Grizzly Bears Have in Common What do sharks and grizzly bears have in common? I was living the island life in the early 70s, spearfishing, surfing and scuba diving off the coast of Guam, when my dad turned me on to a book titled The Big Sky by...
by Daniel J. Smith | Sep 17, 2023 | geoBlog
A cross between John Colter and William Clark, with a voice echoing James Earl Jones, a biologist, a beekeeper, a conservationist, Ken Sinay is one of the most passionate and colorful Yellowstone guides on the planet. Coming from a background in wildlife biology, he...
by Daniel J. Smith | Jul 6, 2015 | geoBlog
One winter back in the mid-ninties, I was traveling around Yellowstone in winter on snowmobiles doing sound for an NHK film crew. At one particular stop, I believe it was Black Sand Basin, several snowmobiles were parked while their drivers were viewing the...
by Daniel J. Smith | Feb 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Buck Mountain Fault, Teton Range, Wyoming In the summer of 1988, the year of the great Yellowstone Fires, I was engaged in my structural geology field research in the Tetons. I spent some six weeks in the range that year, at times waking in the middle of the night...