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Lone Star – No Show. I’d started up the trail at a moderate pace and after a few minutes came to a dividing point. It seemed that the main trail went to the left but I recalled, and spoke aloud, …

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At various points as you transit around the Yellowstone NP, you’ll see signs like this one:. The signs differ principally in reporting the elevation – which ranges from just under 8,000 feet to nearly 8,400. This continental divide is the …

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It had been another chilly night and when I left Jackson Monday morning I thought the gray-white clouds obscuring the top third of the mountains was fog from the condensing dew. I’d learn later that no, it wasn’t only dew, …