This post is an update for my travel and activities with Kaiyote Tours for the last year. I have been very busy and it has been a great year since my last post about New Years 2017. Hard to believe that was almost a year and a half past already.
So much has happened since I last posted on this blog, that I am not going to try and write about it, but I am adding a lot of photos at the bottom.
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This summer will be a very special anniversary for me. My
first year as a nature guide was the summer of 1998 in Rocky Mountain National
Park and at the time, I figured being a guide might last a year or two. But this
year will mark 20 years as a guide: sixteen years in Rocky Mountain National
Park and now nearly four years in Olympic National Park, plus during that same
time, eleven years of organizing international travel tours.
My guiding career started when I was working at the front
desk at the historic Crags Lodge in Estes Park, Colorado at the edge of Rocky
Mountain National Park; the lodge had been converted into a condo-time-share
and the guests stayed for a week. There were many people who on Day 1 drove
through the park, Day 2 went shopping and on Day 3 were at the front desk
asking "What else is there to do?" and I said "WHAT?"
And so I organized an activities program and it was so
popular that it become my full time job. I worked at the Crags Lodge for 12
years, from 1995 - 2007, and one day I decided to start my own guide service
and have my own business in Rocky Mountain National Park and so in May 2007,
Kaiyote Tours was officially open for business. After 7 years in RMNP, in the
fall of 2014, I moved to Port Angeles, Washington so I could live close to the
ocean and still have a very big back yard of wilderness. For the past four
years now, I have been living on my sailboat, guiding tours in ONP and traveling
as often as possible.
This year, just as last, Ed and Kari will be helping me with
tours in both in Olympic National Park and my international travel tours as
well. We hope you join one of our trips!
Below are photos from the past year from all my tours, both international and Olympic National Park. There are a lot of photos because it has been so long since I posted any.
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