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Hiking in Yellowstone: Wildflowers, Wildlife, Waterfalls, Hot Springs |
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Program Number: |
4874RJ |
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| Duration: |
5 nights |
| Location: |
Yellowstone, Montana
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| Price starting at: |
$899.00 - Price may vary based on date, departure city |
| Program Type:
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Walking/Hiking; National Parks
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Activity Level: |
t (see description) |
| Meals: |
15;
5 Breakfasts, 1 Brunch, 4 Lunches, 5 Dinners |
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Vegetarian |
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Yellowstone National Park offers 1,200 miles of hiking, walking and backpacking trails that wind through the park’s 2.2 million acres of spectacular and mostly untouched terrain. Led by a naturalist, explore pathways that thread through Yellowstone’s matchless landscape of diverse flora, thermal features, landforms, canyons, cascades and waterways.
Highlights
• Discover a spectacular and mostly untouched landscape while hiking a fragment of Yellowstone's 1,200 miles of backpacking, hiking and walking trails.
• Four days in the field offer a tantalizing glimpse of the Great Caldera’s infinite wonders.
• An instructor’s interpretation and observations enhance your hiking field trips and provide an intimate portrait of the park’s wildlife, habitats and geology.
Activity Particulars
Hikes of 3-6 miles on established hiking trails at elevations from 5,200-9,000 feet. Be prepared for sudden changes in weather.
Date Specific Information
7-14-2013
Discover Yellowstone abloom via ecology presentations and four days exploration among some of the region`s 1,150 native species of flowering plants. Several less active, botanist-led wildflower walks each field day offer subtle blooms to blazing glory; walk 3 to 4 miles per day among life zones from the northern desert community to areas above timberline. Consider monkshood, pollinators, bears, elephanthead and fringed gentian when Yellowstone showcases its magnificent wildflowers.
8-4-2013
Enjoy the latest in hearing technology — listening devices — on this date.
8-18-2013
This program date has both an activity level of "Challenging" & “Moderately Challenging.” Participants will be split into two small groups to hike, discover and learn will afoot. Challenging hikes will take experienced hikers 6-8 miles on each of four field days. Moderately challenging hikes will take hikers 3-6 miles and include a visit to Old Faithful.
Coordinated by University of Montana Western.
Yellowstone National Park (Montana)
The world's first national park, established in 1872, is famous for its thermal features, plentiful flora and fauna, as well as its considerable human history, from early explorers to the historic park lodges. Although the park itself is in Wyoming, three of the entrances are in Montana.
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Accommodations
Motel housing, some rooms up one flight of stairs.
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| Road Scholar Instructors | | These instructors are participating on at least one date of this program. Please note that changes may occur. | Gene Ball
| | Raised along the rural Louisiana-Texas border, Gene's early outdoor experiences began a lifelong interest in wildlife, western heritage and preservation. After teaching and serving as director for the Hill Country Arts Foundation and Cowboy Artists Museum in Texas, he migrated to Wyoming to work at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. He then became director of the Yellowstone Association and Yellowstone Institute in Yellowstone National Park, and now freelances as a writer and naturalist. | | | | Catherine Raven
| | A resident of the Greater Yellowstone region for 18 years, Dr. Catherine Raven began her career as a backcountry ranger at Glacier and Mt. Rainier National Parks. She later received her Ph.D. in biology from Montana State University while working as a biological technician in North Cascades and Voyageurs National Parks. Her high school Forestry textbook was published in 2006 and she has since published natural history essays in American Scientist, American Mensa and Montana magazines. | | | |
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