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YELLOWSTONE

BITTER COLD AND BISON MAKE THIS VISIT MEMORABLE
STORYAND PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL BURGE

here was a moment when I had doubts Fortunately, our guide was closer than I was
about this expedition — traveling to Yel- and saw what had happened, so she dove in
T lowstone National Park in deepest win- and pulled her out. Kathie managed to lie atop
ter. That was when my wife disappeared in a the drift and roll in a winter version of body
snow drift. And there I was, some forty feet surfing, like a true San Diegan. But it took her
away, with a guard rail and a hillock of snow a while to thaw out in the comfort of our snow
between us and no way to get to her. coach.

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