1. Before setting off on your 8-mile hike into Yellowstone’s backcountry, make sure you have more than one bear spray between 6 of you…
2. Try not to feel too bad about mules carrying your stuff… apparently 70 lbs is nothing for a mule… yikes.
3. If you do encounter any bison during rutting season, just try and avoid eye contact… It's surprisingly challenging to differentiate between a bluff charge and a real one.
4. On the subject of bison, if you recognise a recurring pattern of them strolling right through where your tents are pitched up, take it as a sign that you’re in the middle of a social trail… and don’t be surprised when you hear a bison chilling right outside your tent at 2 in the morning. Maybe just move your tent?
5. Unless you want your bear boxes to turn into swimming pools, make sure they’re closed before it starts pouring down.
6. When working on your sections while trail widening, don’t start a new section too far away from everyone else's…it’ll take more time than you think to connect them...Lotta Dirt.
7. If you find a cool rock or stone, take a pic of it and leave it where you found it. (apparently anything that's 50+ years old counts as archeology…. oops).
8. If the dirt on the trail you're widening literally feels like cutting through butter, be sure to make the most of the sheer joy you feel… it won’t be long before you’re fighting rocks in your backslope again.
9. Look up once in a while, it's beautiful!
10. If your project partner is felling a tree and has asked you to stand at the top of one end of the trail to stop hikers, try not to get distracted filming him and actually pay attention to the trail. (Apparently, there will definitely be hikers passing by at that exact moment in the middle of nowhere in Yellowstone, even though you haven’t seen another soul for about 3 days)...
11. Bring waterproofs with you or be ok with getting wet - it will rain at some point in the hitch…(or at the same time every day, for the entire hitch).
12. If you’re caching your tools, cache your helmets too. (can’t believe it's taken us so long to think of that)...
13. If the peace and serenity of being surrounded by stunning environments back at camp gets too much for you, may I suggest watching the Great Pottery Throwdown on HBO… as the title suggests, it’s great.
14. Try not to hurt your back by throwing stones or rocks in the river…
15. Speaking of a rock, try not to crush your finger between one and your tool… doesn’t feel so great apparently.
16. Also, avoid smashing your pulaski into ol,d rotting tree trunks… you’ll awaken some angry hornets who will take it very personally…
17. You know, in general, just try not to get hurt cuz’ 8 miles is a long way to walk if you need to be evacuated…
18. If you find a dead mouse on your trail, give it a proper send-off and make it a nice grave… just make sure it's not next to where you’re gonna be brushing your teeth for the next week or so.
19. If you hear an animal growling in the night, just uh…. Don’t worry about it, you’re fine.
20. If you ever find yourself at the Calfee Creek cabin, be sure to read the record books of passed visitors. Shoutout to BUGMAN (John Burger), he caught 101 horseflies in an afternoon…legend.

Get yourself to the Lamar River trail and check out an awesome widened trail (not biased at all), and a re-routed section of trail...hopefully another flood won’t take that out as well… apologies in advance for the steepness.

Thank you to all those we worked with from the National Park Service, legends, the lot of ya - and shoutout to all the awesome wildlife.