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[carolyn loren]

I can't seem to receive postings, but hope I can post at least...

If you look at the park forecast, we've already gotten today's snow, plus 
tonight's, tomorrow's and then some.  I just walked out to peer and listen 
to Old Faithful to predict it, and this was afternoon already.  Earlier it 
took 2 1/2 hours to break trail to Grand, Riverside and back via Daisy.  
When we passed by Castle on the way back (Kristine Maloney is volunteering, 
unless she changes her mind after today...) we could just see a dimple where 
we'd broken a trail an hour before.  Guess it's winter in Yellowstone.

Plume is still active, about 45 minutes apart, 2 skiers got to see Grand 
today (Jan. 8) around 1133.  Of 2 bison hunkered down in the trees by Grotto 
(post-marathon maybe), one was only visible because one horn wasn't 
completely snow-covered.

We saw Beehive yesterday and I think have just one closed interval of about 
15 hours.  Little Squirt was active yesterday.  And to answer your question 
Kitt, you could have gotten by without snowshoes to Artemisia yesterday, but 
not any more...

Carolyn, OFVC