Coyotes are awesome

First, the Coyotes have two Teton counsellors with a genuinely wacky sense of humor. 

First, here's Laura!

Next, here's Kelsey. 

Coyotes hiked through the remains of a big forest fire that has now begun to grow in along the edge of an enormous lake. 

Maya read to us from the writings of the naturalist John Muir. 

Then we reached Hidden Falls. The brilliantly white frigid water tumbles into view as melting snow feeds the streams thousands of feet above where we stand. A mountain has many lives and human tourists are of no more account than bears or chipmunks or tobacco root plants. Everything matters but everything is small in scale compared to the sky and the rocky faces towering above us. 

Here are watercolor sketches they made. 

Finally, at night we went to hear the plangent yearning call of bull elk seeking a willing companion. Under the moon in the increasingly frigid nights of approaching winter, it is time to start new life. Our youngsters sat stock still in the sage meadow, just listening. After 30 minutes we left. Perhaps some day they will remember that chilly October night when they heard the voice of the wild that step by step slips into the background of our ever-more crowded planet.