It’s easy to forget that Yellowstone is a wild and dangerous place. On one of our ventures we picked up a book, Deaths in Yellowstone- Accidents and foolhardiness in the first national park, which has become our evening after dinner entertainment.

Visiting geologic features in the park have a whole new intrigue, transforming comments from “Daddy look at that bubbling pool”, to “Hey, is that the place where the boy dove in head first after his dog and died!?”