The Bison are Bellowing
You peer out the van window as crisp cloudbursts with low-hanging mist cool off the hot, mid-summer air. It smells refreshing and revitalizing. Magenta fireweed, ivory cow parsnip, and yellow arrowleaf balsamroot dash past your vision, coloring the surrounding evergreen forest. Suddenly, the viewscape opens widely. There—in the open expanse of Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley—a lone, large-humped bison deliberately crosses the landscape in an uninterrupted descent upon a massive herd
On Top of the World: Adventure to Eagle Peak
Nestled among the tall peaks of the Absarokas on the remote southeastern boundary of Yellowstone, Eagle Peak is far from the park’s busy roadways and bustling tourist attractions, just barely visible – if you know exactly where to look – from a scant few locations in the park’s popular front-country. Out of sight and out of mind to most visitors, Eagle’s mystique for backcountry enthusiasts is only enhanced by the notorious “Keyhole,” a narrow passage through a crumbling cliff band high on the mountain that truly is the key to reaching the highest point in Yellowstone.