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It’s been two weeks since we got back from Yellowstone and I am now only finally getting around to putting up a post about it.  I do have good reason though since I was out of town the weekend we came back and then started a new job last week. Anyways, Yellowstone was awesome. If you’ve never been there, I would highly recommend it.

We camped for 5 nights there. 2 nights in Canyon Campground and 3 nights in Bridge Bay Campground. Both were nice, but I like Canyon better.  It was near the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River and centrally located to the park.

Yellowstone was somewhat crowded for a national park (I’m used to the Zion and Canyonlands where if you see one other person on the trail that day it is crowded) but the scenery is spectacular and there is tons of wildlife to see.

Since it was fly fishing country, I tryed it out and found I really enjoy it. I didn’t catch anything and managed to hook myself in the back several times, but it was something that was alot of fun. If you are out that way and want to give it a shot forcheap, there is a Walmart in Idaho Falls, ID (on the way to the park from Salt Lake City) that sells a beginners kit all pretied and setup for $25 dollars. I plan to try to post a little more about fly fishing when I get better at it.

Some of the things to remember if you head out there:

• The gysers can get crowded. We went early in the morning to see Old Faithful and there was almost no one there. That is totally time to do it.
• It gets COLD there. We were there in the first week of August and it was in the 70s during the day but dropped to the hig 30s low 40s at night.
• The wildlife is somewhat used to people, but it doesn’t mean that it is harmless. We saw lots of idiots getting 15 feet from a 2000 pound buffalo for a picture. This is a BAD IDEA.
• Also make sure any food you have is put away. There are bears, including Grizzlies.
• Yellowstone like is beautiful and a lot of people don’t visit it. It is the largest high altitude lake in the country and really worth checking out.
• Most of the bears we saw were in the north central part of the park around Tower Junction.
• Most of the buffalo we saw were in the Hayden Valley.

Here is the link to the photoset I took at Flickr