Gallatin River

[AlanLichty]

After I left the Teton area in September I headed up to West Yellowstone and then went north along the western border of Yellowstone Park. I was hoping for some nice fall scenes heading through the Gallatin forest but wasn't really sure what I would get since I had never traveled through this area before. Right as I got to the highest elevations I started seeing some really promising scenes and then encountered a bazillion signs telling me I was entering an "Incident" area from a forest fire complex named the Bacon Rind Fire (who comes up with these names?). All of the turnouts were coned off and had signs forbidding stopping anywhere along the roadways. There were law enforcement types lurking around so I had to keep driving for about 10-15 miles to get out of the Incident zone where I could finally pull off. I was able to grab a few shots of the river with some late season colors in the backlit vegetation along the Gallatin River but it was a far cry from what I was hoping for when I decided to take this road.

Gallatin River

• AlanLichty
• Nov 13, 2018

A scene along the Gallatin River north of Yellowstone NP.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice Alan, this is a great drive, but I think I have only been up once, I usually went up the Madison.

 

[JimFox]

You definitely captured that sunny day feeling here. It's too bad you couldn't have stopped when you wanted to.

As to wildfire names, I have wondered why they started naming these wildfires. My thought was that naming these wildfires only makes it more tempting for arsonists to want to go start fires so they can get added notoriety by now having a name they can attach to their arson work. At least that's how I take it. I do understand that with so many wildfires happening simultaneously now a days that there needs to be a way to differentiate them. But why not just use the name of the closest city? Anyway, you are not alone in pondering about this wildfire naming.

 

[dan swiger]

This is a very nice seen. Some "lowlands" color. I think it was worth stopping for!
As far as the naming goes, in CA, it's often a road, creek or a "place"
For "Bacon Rind", maybe what they had for breakfast