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My husband Ken and I have made a point of visiting Yellowstone Park in the winter for a number of years. This year we were accompanied on a February trip by four friends from Cincinnati who had joined us on one previous winter trip several years ago, when temperatures were much warmer than normal. This year, they had expressed the desire for more winter-like conditions. It turns out they were not disappointed. Continue Reading →
Visitors to Yellowstone National Park's north entrance earlier this month may have wondered what disaster had struck the small town of Gardiner, Mont. But the "patients" and "rescuers" scattered around the Yellowstone Association building just outside Roosevelt Arch were all part of a 2-day wilderness first aid course being offered by the Wilderness Medicine Institute, part of the National Outdoor Leadership School. Continue Reading →
Beartooth Powder Guides held an Avalanche Level 1 course near Cooke City, Mont., just outside the northeast gate of Yellowstone National Park. There were nine participants in the class who learned avalanche basics, backcountry safety, snowpack evaluation, rescue and more. Continue Reading →