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Susan Jennys (she/her)
@yellowstonenpgeek.bsky.social
Pastor; PhD anthro; author; hiker; historian; Yellowstone NP thermal geek; musician; beadworker; gardener. 🤎Windham Hill, Beegie Adair, John Denver, Brule’; NPR, Non-fiction, conservation, Indigenous sovereignty. Happily married to David since 1984. NO DMs
Yes, that’s a ladybug walking up our kitchen window. Yes, it’s November 22nd. But it’s nearly sixty degrees in South Dakota!
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Weather is ridiculously nice here in South Dakota so hubs and I went for a hike this morning at Great Bear. They’ve been working on their trails, with about half the park acreage completed. The trails they’re creating are very nice.
BTW: it’s November 22nd and it was 53 degrees here. Craaaazy!
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This morning’s glorious sunrise. New day; new possibilities.
Go get ‘em!
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I think Jack-Jack thought he heard there would be an aurora bunnyalis tonight. Theodore wasn’t so sure Jack-Jack heard things correctly.
#AdventuresofJackJackandTheodore
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
What a surprise! My chili won the second place prize in a chili cookoff.
My friends Brendon and Mike took first and third. ALL the chilis were outstanding!
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A10 #parkchat Yellowstone.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
A9 #parkchat Sparkling frost on grasses; li’l “rumpy” giving us some sass; the hole that has formed in a slowly eroding old sinter formation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
A5 #parkchat Our beautiful badlands is one place where I always find myself feeling very very insignificant.
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A4 #parkchat. The sound of mudpots is the soundtrack I most love to hear. Followed very closely by wind through the pines.
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A3 #parkchat How about a little of both. I love great chats on the trail; I also love sitting in solitude as a spiritual discipline.
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A2 #parkchat nothing like the horizons on the big lakes!
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Good morning, Bluesky!
Stay positive.
Be kind.
Live out the change you want to see in this world.
#strongertogether
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#parkchat
Have you seen this calendar?
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Truth
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Beautiful evening. 11/16/2025
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Yes, we have a dedicated hiking/camping themed holiday tree. Here’s some fave ornaments.
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
More photos from today’s hike. Absolutely stunning weather for mid November.
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Today’s hike at Good Earth State Park. 74 degrees - craaaazy!
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Not as dramatic on 11/12/2025 as the night before but the aurora borealis was still lovely in the South Dakota skies.
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Thermal Thursday. Heart Spring in the foreground; the Lion Geyser Group in the background. Upper Geyser Basin, #YellowstoneNationalPark
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A10 #parkchat I’m learning to enjoy boat tours. Never much of a “water person” until hubs and I took a 40th Anniversary tour out on Yellowstone Lake. Jeez, what a view. Would definitely add lake tours to more national park itineraries in the future.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A4 #parkchat You absolutely must drive across the Jackson basin to enjoy the magnitude of the Teton Range.
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A3 #parkchat I’m pretty partial to the Beartooth Highway entrance route into Yellowstone!
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Yep! It was really cranking! #parkchat
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM