I’m not a reporter. We had parted ways long before I had the thought to blog about it. Too bad. I’d love to include their names, hometown, all that stuff. But like I said, I’m not a reporter. The Northeast exit from Yellowstone is reached by traveling up Lamar Valley from Tower Junction. Lamar is… Continue reading The Heroes of Warm Creek
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How Close is Too Close?
We rounded the curve at the top of Mt. Washburn and saw it. Four cars stopped, people looking to the right. I pulled rapidly off on the shoulder. Looking down, less than 10 feet away was a grizzly bear. Mary Ann grabbed her camera and began taking pictures out the window. He moved past, and… Continue reading How Close is Too Close?
Driving around Yellowstone
Yellowstone is a big park and relatively empty of people, except on the figure ‘8’ loop road that is the only way to travel through the landscape (hikers excluded). Just to get a sense of the scales involved, I clipped the two following images from Google Earth, both taken at 50 miles altitude. While the… Continue reading Driving around Yellowstone