Yellowstone National Park has some of the most beautiful and exiting things to do. It has some of the most interesting Facts. Wyoming has some of the most beautiful streams, geysers, and mountains in the US. There are some really neat things about Yellowstone.
Yellowstone National Park is Service and a favorite to millions of visitors each year. The park is a major stop to have a good vacation. By driving we could view the park from the comfort of our vehicle and also take a rest at one of the many roadside picnic areas. The park has thousands of miles of trails.
Lewis and Clark were the first whites to explore the Yellowstone region among them was one of the most celebrated hunter and woodsman of that period, John Colter. The expedition was in 1908, Colter came back to the Yellowstone and traps this region and in doing this he became the first white visitor to what is now Yellowstone National Park. His return, his "tales" were so unbelievable that no author or mapmaker would publish it for fear of this amongst their friends.
In the latter part of 1840 the fur trade was coming to an end. The trappers who remained in the region adapted and among them was the trapper, Jim Bridger. Bridger, new the fur trade was over and became a guide, scout and legendary story teller. His knowledge of what is now Yellowstone National in the park he became the first "geographer" of the region and was the person to guide Capt. W.F Reynolds including Dr. Ferdinand Hayden and the Reynolds’s Expedition of 1859.
During the 1850's to 1870, the miners of Yellowstone helped to publicize the region with not much more credibility than their trapper ancestors. In 1863, Walter and his party set out to scout through the Yellowstone to...
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...be we are standing on is an ancient Jackson Lake whose gray-green waters are dotted with icebergs calved from valley glaciers pouring out of the Teton.
At about 9,000 feet elevation, the bare ice gives way to slush, then old dry snows. To reach the boundary of Yellowstone would be awesome. Behind are the Teton peaks. The summit of Mt. Sheridan lies a few hundred feet beneath the ice. A chain of dark knobs barely piercing an expanse of white marks the crest-line of the Absaroka Range.
These are some facts, approach the vicinity of present-day Yellowstone Lake, the ice underfoot is about 4,000 feet thick. In every direction, to the very horizons, a boundless, unrelieved plain of snow-covered ice lies silent and lifeless under a glaring sun. We have reached the summit of the Yellowstone ice field. This is a place that everyone I wish would visit in their life.
Before Lake Coeur d’Alene existed, the St. Joe River ran through the present lakebed northward and up through the Rathdrum Prairie before turning west and into the Spokane Valley. About 15,000 years ago, during the peak of the last glacial period, huge glaciers covered much of British Columbia. This ice, which was almost 4,000 feet thick, unimaginably covered all but the highest mountain peaks. The glacier slowly crept down into North Idaho, stopping just north of Coeur d’Alene (Wuerthner, 30, 32).
Over the summer of 1827, Jedediah Smith’s men camped near here, if not on this spot. Impressed by the climate and bountiful wildlife, Smith’s party convinced the Hudson’s Bay Company trappers in the Oregon Country to start trapping farther south each year. From 1832 to 1845, the French Canadian trappers made their seasonal headquarters at what they called Castoria [French Camp] about fifteen miles...
Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took the risk of life, limb, and liberty to bring back the precious and valuable information of the Pacific Northwest of the United States territory. Their accomplishments of surviving the trek and delivering the data to the U.S. government, have altered the course of history, but have some Historian’s and author’s stating, “It produced nothing useful.”, and having “added little to the stock of science and wealth. Lewis and Clark’s expedition is one of the most famous and most unknown adventures of America’s frontier.
Glaciers are an integral part of the world’s climate. In fact, as Richard Armstrong of the University of Colorado says, “Glaciers are key indicators in monitoring and detecting climate change” (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, 2003, p. 1). Not only are they an important part of monitoring current climate, they can hold many keys to the past. Glaciers are in fact, “a source of paleoclimate data…” (Meier and Dyurgerov, 1980, p. 37). This paleoclimate data can give geologists information on the conditions that were present at the time of the glaciers birth, as well as the approximate age. This has an important role in the geologic time scale of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. These Glaciers played a role in the carving of the present day Rocky Mountains in Colorado, which will be the primary focus of this paper. In addition, glacial formations will be discussed to give the reader background information and the future of the Glaciers in Colorado will close this paper.
Scientists believe that the ice in Glacier bay during the first ice age could have been nearly 1000 feet thick! And as the original glacier has diminished in size from that time, it has left 20 separate glaciers, of which two are tidewater glaciers that calve into the bay. And as recently as 200 years ago, in almost all of Glacier Bay, a fjord was covered by the Grand Pacific Glacier; since then the ice has been retreating and Glacier Bay, now 65 miles long, has taken it’s present form. When Captain Lester A. Berdslee of the U.S. Navy was in it in 1980, its beauty took him away. He gave it the name “Glacier Bay” because of it’s striking locality. This was also the same year when it was declared an national park and preserve. Though years earlier it was proclaimed a national monument in 1925. And then in 1992 it was designed a UNESCO World Heritage site. Today, the park’s headquarters are at Gustavuas, near the mouth of the bay. The bay, which is studded with many largely treeless islands that are used a rookeries by thousands of seabirds, has fjord like inlets that terminate at ice cliffs or sheer faces of the glaciers. It contains at 16 active glaciers that descend from the St. Elias Mountains to the east and Fair-weather Rage to the west. The park and reserve cover an area of 5,129 square miles and includes Glacier Bay itself, the northern, southern, and western slopes of Mount Fairweather, and the U.S. portion of the Alsek
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When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark first explored Montana in the early 1800s, they were awestruck by the open plains and delighted by the wide range of animals that roamed the land. After reaching the Great Falls, which is on the Missouri River in what is now Montana (Av2 books). Lewis wrote in his journal that it was “the grandest sight” that he had “ever beheld.” Today much of the landscape the Lewis and Clark crossed remains unchanged. The dense forest, rugged mountains, and rushing rivers are still abundant with fish and other wildlife.
The canyon is a part of what is now the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, an area of land first acquired through the Louisiana Purchase. In this painting, the observer may notice many features which stand out. In the background, the image depicts a large, rocky ravine, occupied by a river and rows of trees. The river leads to a large orb of light, presumably stemming from a fire. In the foreground, two men are seen standing on a cliff above the ravine, presumably in awe at the wondrous land they have just discovered in the distance. Behind the men is an untraveled area of
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After a great night of sleep we headed out to the world renown mountain of Jackson Hole. It is known for being the steepest mountain on which a ski resort is set up. It is also know for having a great view of Grand Teton, one of the highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains. We could not have asked for a better day of riding. there was a fresh 14” of snow under our boards and after a little bit of exploring we found some great out of bounds and woods riding.
Thomas Moran has just been invited to join Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden in his Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 where they will be adventuring into the great unknowns of the Yellowstone Canyon. Thomas Moran only imagined what the canyon would look like prior to his trip on the expedition and often made sketches of Yellowstone without seeing the canyon in person. When Moran and the expedition team got there, it was as every bit breathtaking as they hoped it would be. Thomas Moran captured its sheer beauty and essence in a series of paintings and sketches while a fellow expeditioner, William Henry Jackson, captured it in photographs. Those photographs and paintings was enough to convince the president and US congress to make Yellowstone into a national park like it is today. The government even purchased Moran’s other painting, The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, for $10,000. This shows that Moran created a painting that could impact government politics. However, one of the reasons why the Yellowstone Canyon would be so captivating to the government is because it makes the viewers experience the
The mountains were tall (11,000 feet +) and covered with bright powdery snow. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. I was eager to set-up camp and prepare for our nine day hunt. But, Dad said that we had to drive around and check out all the good places, just to make sure that we were in the best area. This was partially understandable, but since I am a teenager I'm not supposed to understand anything! So, we spent another several hours driving. We went up and down through the mountains and then we saw it. The spot was beautiful; it was right on the edge of a vertical drop-off, over looking everything. It was like paradise, but colder!
“… The difference between the present reservoir, with its silent sterile shores and debris-choked side canyons, and the original Glen Canyon, is the difference between death and life. Glen Canyon was alive. Lake Powell is a graveyard.” – Edward Abbey, “The Damnation of a Canyon”, Beyond the Wall