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"Bring hack, hr..
"or. bring back my baoon to no, to me.
"Bring; back, hring hook,
"0h ‘vring hock my 'oaoon to nee."
At this can p we heoone aooneinted with :r. and :rs. m, a young
couple from fies Loines, Iowa. "hey o hsen on the trail three
h:-
months and mostly in the southwest. .ve enjoyed nzmy pleasant
hd‘rs with them. Their only shelter was their oar w .6}: is not a
had idea if one confines his cam ing to the southwestern ststes.
:17 e that we did not u.e our tent.
The wgtPEr lad been so
and as a rutter of fact, it so not set up aCain until we visited
the next n'ztional park. >e drove eastward over
liter
nore d' eye at this
our
2; few
the southern part or the noin loop to "71L": Junction and its car
on the shore of Yellowstone Lake. on the ey the Continental Div-
ide was crossed at two places, the first at P." and the next at
8360 feet. This was est point that we had heen so far.
While driving alrmg 7 son .l large hird alighting on a nest in a
tree top and asked l'. to take its picture. "es nhoto 80. it was
Tn osprey and tank off just as she snapped it. in the haokground
t! u the t_ees is Duck Pond.
AL Tun Geno there was
the most norsistant old hear
who iust Kept coming toward
us while to tried to score
im away I first? stones at
l; and he watc! then roll
‘ny and tent oon- .5. We were
Just about to jump in the
car and drive owav when le
turned and walked hock lot
the woods. Late in the after
noon campers came in with
Large strings of trout.
sveryons seemed to have lad
good luck. Hear camp was
onother grouo or colored :lo. so
pa' t pots, that ‘vehaved
like those that we sow near Norris Junction.
The South Entrance approach road joins the n in loop system
at Thum Junction Wis road leads to Grand Tutor: v rk
and the Jackson .ole section and is only so miles away e road
had not yet heen Opened due to earth slides from the n st winter.
.itonoed over night at Thun Camp and drove over tie main 1001) read
to Lélee Junction and 652115;? Bridge .tuto Camp. . no nighway was
along the regular shore line of 'rellow stone Lake. This lake is
10 les wide and 15 miles long. Its maximum depth is 330 reet
and the elevation of the water surface is 775/) feet. on the way
we stopped at fishing reyser, wh oh is in the lake and about nosed
frum th shore. its oone is shout two feet ooove the level of the
lake and large enough for one to sit and fish. So without moving
from the spot,€ish may he caught, boiled in the hot water of the

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