Three months ago I was contacted through my YouTube
channel by Becca from Chicago. She was anticipating her first visit to
Yellowstone Country this Memorial Day week. Her message was not unlike a
child’s letter to Santa, pleading for help in making the event successful. She
had so many questions. What could she expect, what kind of gear should she
bring and where should she visit.
Each month she contacted me with additional questions.
Finally last week her post simply read “This is awesome. 6 more sleeps till Yellowstone! I'm so excited for a
new adventure.” Saturday I replied to her post. “Bring warm clothes and rain
gear. We have four inches of snow and it will probably rain most of Memorial
Day weekend.”
During the past two weeks,
summer cabins have been opened at a brisk pace. Contractors are being pressured
to complete projects in time for the cabin owners’ opening summer holiday. The
procession of ATVs being trailered up Ashton Hill is reminiscent of the animals
arriving two-by-two as they entered Noah’s Ark.
Yellowstone Country weather is neither predictable nor uneventful. The
challenge of the high country is adapting to whatever Mother Nature throws
one’s way and discovering enjoyment in the challenge.
The magic of Island Park
and Yellowstone Country can be found by immersing one’s self in the beauty of
the moment. It may be in a group of swans whose wings beat the river as they
take flight. That special moment may occur while viewing a beautiful cloud
formation reflecting the light of a setting sun as it drops behind a veil of
pines or a pair of moose grazing knee-deep in a creek. The weather adds background
to an already beautiful scene, a virtual painting to be hung in the gallery of
your mind’s eye. Remarkable memories are not realized from uneventful trips.
Enjoy all that Yellowstone
Country has to offer and remember to be safe.
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