{"id":8358,"date":"2019-07-28T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2019-08-12T19:53:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T00:53:30","slug":"yellowstone-winter-camping-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2019\/yellowstone-winter-camping-1986","title":{"rendered":"Winter Camping in Yellowstone Park 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were three college buddies with lots of skiing and camping experience between us. So when I moved to Wyoming<\/strong> we decided to take a little winter trip inside Yellowstone National Park<\/strong>. [Gallery<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richard, Al, Christopher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We checked in at the South Entrance Ranger Station<\/strong>. Our first task was to ford the Lewis River<\/strong> (we’d brought hip-waders for this, which we cached for the return trip).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once across we followed the Snake River<\/strong> for a mile or two and then decided to camp before it got dark. My winter camping experience had taught me that tents weren’t very practical. Instead we shoveled out a sleeping platform<\/strong> in a shallow trench. We topped this with a tarp anchored on three sides. It was really quite cosy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next day we proceeded along the river and encountered small thermal features flowing into the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We indulged ourselves with a hot bath in an outflow stream. [It’s not safe or legal to enter the thermal features directly.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later that day we crossed the river and started climbing up a saddleback ridge. It was tough going so we quit early to make our second snow camp and do a bit of skiing without packs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We dined that night in sight of our destination, the Heart Lake Geyser Basin<\/strong>. So close and yet so far!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next day we skied down the valley back to our first camp and out the next day. As we forded the stream for the second time a family of River Otters<\/strong> entertained us slipping and sliding on the snow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were three college buddies with lots of skiing and camping experience between us. So when I moved to Wyoming we decided to take a little winter trip inside Yellowstone National Park. [Gallery] We checked in at the South Entrance Ranger Station. Our first task was to ford the Lewis River (we’d brought hip-waders for … Continue reading “Winter Camping in Yellowstone Park 1986”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,10],"tags":[458,456,457,455,459],"class_list":["post-8358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-travel","tag-cross-country-skiing","tag-river-otters","tag-snow-shelter","tag-winter-camping","tag-yellowstone-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8379,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}