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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Yellowstone Area Suggestions
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Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 01:55:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 01:55:30 1984
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  I worked in Yellowstone for a summer, and you wanted opinions, but this may
not be what you wanted to hear. First of all, *don't* spend time at Old 
Faithful. I know you will feel obligated to go there, but the place is a real
tourist trap, it's like a goddamn city, and there are other geysers in the
park that are both more regular and have bigger eruptions. The best places to
see in the Park are off the main roads. Find a good trail head (the Ranger
stations have maps of all the trails), and hike in two or three miles
away from the road. Two trails that I remember very well are Lake Shoshone
(the trail head is between Old Faithful and West Thumb, I believe. It's about
3 miles from road to lake) and Mt. Washburn, the highest mountain in the
Park (the trailhead is a few miles north of Canyon Village). If you do hike
up Mt. Washburn (3 miles of switchbacks), take the time to hike down to
Canyon Village the back way. The whole trip is about 17 miles, a long
wearying hike, but the trail goes right through the middle of some neat
geyser basins. No signs or wooden rails, either.
  Generic advice: go where the people aren't. You will be in some of the
finest wilderness area in the world, but you ain't going to see it from
the road! Have fun!

		      GREG
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