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2naSalit

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2. Update...
Mon Jul 24, 2023, 07:18 AM
Jul 2023

As per Yellowstone Public Radio (YPR), the only public info is that she was up on the Buttermilk Trail which is roughly 8 miles west of town, goes up to the Continental Divide. It's a very beary area, I have spent hours and hours up there for various reasons during the decade + that I lived there. In winter it's a major snowmobile route that takes you from that point to Island Park on the other side of the divide, heavily forested and heavenly beautiful with wildflowers and everything you would want to see in nature.

The identity is still not released, she was found so that means she was alone, big mistake in that area. Unless there was another victim who got carried off, unlikely as that may be.

A situation, rarely talked about, is that the park is swarming with humans and their vehicles, more every year, they are hiking and camping all over the place outside the park for 90 miles or better from the park boundary. The wildlife are getting stressed to the max by all the people and climate change, don't expect them to be happy to see you, they don't have anywhere else to go, though grizzles are migrating outward... back into the grasslands from whence they came a century ago.

I would like to know which trail... 2naSalit Jul 2023 #1
Words of wisdom. sinkingfeeling Jul 2023 #3
If people would just invest 1/10th the time they spend on picking out a new hat and boots Maru Kitteh Aug 2023 #8
Having been... 2naSalit Aug 2023 #9
I remember when the female cyclist MontanaMama Aug 2023 #12
Update... 2naSalit Jul 2023 #2
What do you want to bet I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2023 #4
33%. 2naSalit Jul 2023 #5
They are excited PlutosHeart Jul 2023 #6
That's the part... 2naSalit Aug 2023 #11
Victim of grizzly bear attack near West Yellowstone has been identified Ptah Jul 2023 #7
So... 2naSalit Aug 2023 #10
THIS. MontanaMama Aug 2023 #13
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