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Session II Video Presentation + Group Photos
Dear Reader, The final photos presentation is live on YouTube: See below for the Session II group photos! Regards, Your Narrator

Yellowstone YCC
Aug 21, 20221 min read
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Week 4: The Last Week
Dear Reader, We have come to the end of the second session of YCC. Today, crew leaders are driving to Yellowstone International Airport...

Yellowstone YCC
Aug 16, 20221 min read
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Weekend 3 Backpacking
Dear Reader, The weather--a last resort small talk topic, Meursault's fixation in Camus' L'Étranger, and a growing source of...

Yellowstone YCC
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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Week 3 of Work
Dear Reader, The work week ended yesterday and today, Rec Rangers are leading YCC crews on an overnight backpacking trip (more details on...

Yellowstone YCC
Aug 6, 20221 min read
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Week Two
Dear Reader, It's been another week at YCC! Monday started with guest speaker Jeremy Sunder-Raj's presentation on Yellowstone's wolf...

Yellowstone YCC
Aug 1, 20221 min read
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Week 1 of Recreation
Dear Reader, Like for most tourists who (had) entered Yellowstone National Park through the North Entrance, the Roosevelt Arch and its...

Yellowstone YCC
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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Week 1 Spike (Work) Recap
Dear Reader, First, your narrator apologizes for this past week of silence but assures his readers that while away from the keyboard, he...

Yellowstone YCC
Jul 26, 20223 min read
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Welcome Session II!
Dear Reader, It's another session of YCC! On Sunday, staff, including your narrator, embarked on their way to Yellowstone International...

Yellowstone YCC
Jul 19, 20222 min read
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Session I Group Photo
Dear Reader, We typically take YCC group photos on the first day (today, in fact for Session II), but the floods postponed them. Find...

Yellowstone YCC
Jul 18, 20221 min read
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Week 4 and 5: Work, Rec, and Farewell
Dear Reader, How time flies: the first session of this year's YCC has ended already. However, at YCC, we seize each passing second to...

Yellowstone YCC
Jul 13, 20223 min read
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Weekend Backpacking
Dear Reader, The YCC crews have experience with backpacking and camping, the former from the last rec trip and the latter from each week...

Yellowstone YCC
Jul 4, 20221 min read
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Week 3 of Work
Dear Reader, Martian skies, a deathly silence, and soot everywhere are what your narrator lived through during the California wildfires...

Yellowstone YCC
Jul 3, 20223 min read
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Week 2 Rec Activities
Dear Reader, First, I'd like to extend my gratitude to readers who participated in the last post's Old Faithful visitor count estimation...

Yellowstone YCC
Jul 1, 20223 min read
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Week 2 of Work
Dear Reader, Last Wednesday, June 22, Yellowstone National Park's south loop reopened to the public. Or, Old Faithful is once again a...

Yellowstone YCC
Jun 27, 20222 min read
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An Exclusive Tour around Yellowstone + a VIP
Dear Reader, This past weekend, staff and students embarked on a historic tour around the park. If you have followed this blog or the...

Yellowstone YCC
Jun 21, 20222 min read
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Recap of the First Work Week
Dear Reader, Last Sunday, your narrator was one among the staff who drove to Yellowstone International Airport in Bozeman to pick up...

Yellowstone YCC
Jun 20, 20221 min read
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First Full Day at YCC!
Monday, June 13, 2022. First Breakfast at YCC: students sit in their crews and with their crew leaders for the first time. It's cold and...

Yellowstone YCC
Jun 17, 20221 min read
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Session I has begun. Welcome students!
Sunday, June 12, 2022--the big day has come. The staff have been waiting for this big day, some for up to 2 months! Morning arrives and...

Yellowstone YCC
Jun 12, 20221 min read
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Bumper Log Installation
Bumper logs protect paths and vegetation within Yellowstone National Park by delineating sections for pedestrians and / or automobiles....

Yellowstone YCC
May 30, 20221 min read
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Bear Safety
Although bear-related fatalities at Yellowstone National Park are quite rare (44 grizzly bear injuries throughout the entire history),...

Yellowstone YCC
May 15, 20221 min read
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