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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 07:20 AM
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Greetings from Yellowstone! Don't forget DU's The Necessary Language...
...our online literary magazine at TheNecessaryLanguage.com Lots of great stories (as always) in this Spring edition!

Ran into a bear--literally--on a path the other day. I turned a corner and there he was. I yelled (wrong!) but he still didn't see me because he was grazing. I backed up the hill and watched him for a bit. Big old black bear--better that than a grizzly!
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 07:25 AM
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1. Still a lot of snow on the ground?
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 04:07 PM
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2. I'm in Mammoth, so there's not much...
...I hear lots of other places have a lot. We did get flurries for a couple days, but nothing really stuck!
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 04:08 PM
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3. My daughter watched a buffalo head-butt a mini-van in Yellowstone.
Left a BIG dent.

Splain that one to the insurance agent, right?
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 07:13 AM
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11. He just wanted the right of way!
Seriously, in his mind the van was encroaching on his territory and that was the only way he could let it know!
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 04:24 PM
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4. You should by a copy of the book "Death in Yellowstone"
Edited on Fri May-12-06 04:24 PM by swag
from the gift shop there.

Very grisly reading.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 04:45 PM
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5. mmm
if I ever get to the Southwest, I should ask for the Swag tour....;)
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 04:58 PM
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7. Just stay out of the superheated pools and springs
Edited on Fri May-12-06 05:00 PM by swag
and you can keep your skin for a while.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 07:14 AM
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12. No matter how many signs they post...
...someone will try to take a dip!
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 04:49 PM
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6. Hi joeybee!
How's the trip going?

:hi:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 07:12 AM
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10. Hi back at you!
It's going ok--start my real job in a week, so then it'll be better!
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 07:21 PM
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8. great time to visit Yellowstone
I love it when it's cold there, and everything seems more active.

The last time I was there was 2002--it was about two weeks later than this, but I got caught in a vicious snowstorm as the day ended. We decided to drive back to my mom's rather than stay in the park, which might have been a mistake--that snowstorm provided the single most gruesome driving experience of my life, but DAMN was it beautiful!

Enjoy Yellowstone, a place very close to my heart :toast:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 07:11 AM
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9. I'm here for the whole summer!
Great in the early season with very few tourists!
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 04:35 PM
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14. wow, i'm jealous
I always wanted to spend a summer in yellowstone. Are you working there? Or just enjoying?

Enjoy the few tourists while it lasts :) That same day in late may that we got caught in a snowstorm we wandered around the entire loop at Old Faithful and saw maybe 20 people, tops. It was great :hi:
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 08:02 AM
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13. Hi joeybee
:hi: I remember my first trip to Yellowstone. We were out in the NF and the rangers made us watch a video on bear encounters :scared:.

We didn't see any bears on that trip, but we had a moose come down to the stream we were camped next to. Have a great summer and update us when you can.
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