14 days to go—it’s hard to believe.  We are no-where near ready to take off–but we’re working on it.  The big challenge right now is getting the right containers for the car–they have to be extremely flexible–so we’re thinking about buying several large laundry bags.

I can’t help but wonder what it will be like at Mammouth when we get there.  You can see from this picture what it was like when we first visited on May 12th last year.  There was an icy snow falling that didn’t last long but it felt like a real blizzard.  The Mammouth area of the park had no snow left on the ground–but the southern end of the park still had 4-6 feet.  It’s really two different ecosystems.  Apparently they haven’t had a lot of snow in the mammouth area this year–so that will have an impact on the summer.  The park relies, to some degree, on snow melt for summer moisture.

For current forecasts, if you go to Weather in Yellowstone you actually get Riverton, WY–that’s good for the southern end of the park;  if you try Gardiner, you’ll get the northern part of the park.  They are due for lots of snow in upper elevations tonight and tomorrow–so I think the decision to take my heavy winter coat has probably been made.