понедельник, 5 марта 2012 г.

Gray wolves star attraction of Yellowstone winter

It is a sunny winter afternoon, and Simond Raymond has a problem.

His flight home to Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland leaves this evening from Bozeman, Montana. But at the moment, Raymond is standing in the snow of the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park, 120 miles (193 kilometers) away.

He must get his rental car over 30 miles (48 kilometers) of twisty mountain road, much of it snowpacked and icy, before even reaching the main highway, then another 90 miles (145 kilometers), including a mountain pass, to the airport.

How late, he asks, can he delay his departure from Yellowstone? How far can he push his luck before he must leave? After 10 …

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