Sunday August 13, 2006

Arrived in West Yellowstone

When we left St. Mary this morning, I was able to get a few photos of the fire damage. These photos in no way show how extensive the fire was - one person told us that there were 37,000 acres that burned. The town and KOA were evacuated for 4 days.

Here's a few URLs with other information on the fire:

Red Eagle Fire Wildland Fire

Photos from the Red Eagle Fire - St. Mary, Montana

On our way up to St. Mary, you could see the guard rail posts had burned, they've taken most of them down now.

About 9 hours later, we arrived at the West Yellowstone KOA. Its a nice campground, but they've got a bit of an attitude that I didn't appreciate while checking in. They spend 5 minutes just trying to figure out if our trailer counted as an extra vehicle.

Here's the Kottage we're staying in.

In the morning, we're moving to the other resort where we're staying the rest of the week, and I'm a little uncertain if there will be any Internet access there (I really doubt it).