[pct-l] Yellowstone VS Yosemite and Rainier

[jjolson at uwyo.edu (Jeffrey Olson)]

They can tell you where to camp in Yellowstone, but in the winter allow 100s
of snowmobiles on the roads, and tacitly allow nearly that many to enter the
park off road.  I have friends who tell stories of chasing buffalo and
coyote by snowmobile.

The wilderness areas south and east of Yellowstone are some of wildest
places in the lower 48.  Because there are grizzlies people tend to avoid
the area.  The Teton, Washakie, and North Absaroka wildernesses...

Jeff Olson
Laramie, WY where we just had a nice hailstorm...  Living at 7200' is
wonderful...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marion Davison" <mardav@charter.net>

> This fits with what I read in a Backpacker article about backpacking in
> Yellowstone.  It said that camping areas were situated to avoid areas
where bears
> are active, and that everyone in the backcountry is assigned to a camp
everynight
> and must be in their assigned camp.  It is easy to provide bear storage
> facilities if everyone must camp in an assigned site.  That turned me
right off
> to the place.  If I don't have the freedom to travel and camp where I
wish, then
> that is not a wilderness to me.  To me the whole definition of wilderness
is
> freedom to travel and camp where I wish (while following LNT camping
> practices).