A photo story

A trail in Shoshone National Forest

Laura was walking a trail through burned forest in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, in July 2026. It was a clear evening, around 65, and the wind had dropped off. Earlier that month we had finished the lower 48 at White Butte, and now we were in the Wyoming woods.

Shoshone is a huge national forest in northwest Wyoming, and fire has come through parts of it over the years. The burned trunks and the new green coming up around them are what this trail looked like that evening.