Yellowstone Evacuation continues as News and Reality Sets In

Hearing local news report on the flooding damage occurring in Yellowstone and viewing the footage from National Park Service helicopters of the Gartner River and Soda Butte Creek, Megan and I realized how lucky we were to have been safely evacuated. Knowing the park would remain closed we changed our plans to include a visit to the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, to fish opening day at the Railroad Ranch, on Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in Harriman State Park, and to fish the Warm River in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest

[@nilloofarpaydar7759]

I love to watch father and daughter traveling together ♥️♥️♥️♥️in joy👍👍

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

We just posted the 3rd video in our Yellowstone Evacuation series. Spent yesterday with my daughter pulling together the videos for our 4th and final chapter in our story. Enjoy!

[@bc4134]

This broke my heart a little bit. I road tripped by myself to Yellowstone in August 2020 when the pandemic was in full swing. There were hardly any people on the road the way it was in your videos. That meant getting to enjoy all the sights in peace. I stayed in Pocatello Idaho after driving 13 hours from my home in northwest New Mexico. Then took the 20 to West Yellowstone. I also had to stop for souvenirs :). Then I proceeded down the same road y'all came out of. To see how torn apart it was made me cry a little bit. Yellowstone was always a trip I wanted to take since I was a kid. At 32 (in 2020) I got my wish and I cried driving through that very entrance and in to the park because that child in me was happy. Looking forward to seeing more of the journey ahead!!

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

Thank you for your story. It is a specioal place for us. We took our daughter, Megan, to Yellowstone when she was around 3 or 4 years old. We bought her a toy cap gun and holster in Cody, WY on the drive in. While driving by one of those big bull bisons my wife gave me a tap on the sholder to look back at Megan sitting in her car seat behind us. Megan was pretending to shoot at the bison. We looked at each other asking, where in the world did that come from?

[@sirridesalot6652]

So nice to see fathers and daughters (or sons) enjoying trips and/or doing things together. Those create memories that will last a lifetime.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

It really does!

[@Chricke87]

Looking forward to part 3! That spring-fed river looks absolutely magical.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

And to think, we would not have had time to check it out had we not been evacuated. And, it was sheltered from the wind and unaffected by the area flooding. A real gem. Water was crystal clear.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

Hi Chricke -- I posted part 3 a couple of days ago. Thanks

[@Chricke87]

@@RemoteFlyFishing Thanks for the heads up, just watched it! The trip you guys did seems like so much fun! Just had a friend from Sweden come over to NH, showed him some brookies up in the White Mountains! Would be cool to do a trip like yours tho!

[@oldgamerchick]

Beautiful photography thank you. 🙃☕❤❤

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

Our pleasure! We just published the third video of this series, fly fishing this mountain spring fed stream, the Warm River. You can really see how clear the water is.

[@restezlameme]

Aha! I knew that car sticker was familiar! Greetings from a Mount Holyoke local 🙋‍♀️

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

Yep, my car was in the shop so we took my wife's car. Wife and daughter graduated from Mount Holyoke Collage.

[@CryMeARiver63]

Miss those wonderful out of the blue hail storms . Remember going out on a trail ride with the sun shining and warm to putting on a sweat shirt half way through the ride , lol . The Grizzly/ Wolf Discovery Center sure has changed . So glad to see they expanded the wolf enclosure...😊 .Thanks for bring back some great memories , its been 12 year's since I moved back to my home state .

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

It is a special place. Our next video will be of the Warm River in Idaho. When I got to the Warm River Spring - it sort of felt like I had just walked into Eden.....

[@nancyd4590]

Hi! I know this will be random but if you know you know. I’m a yellow sphinx!!! I like your story telling team you make.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

You saw the griffin on my wife's car! My wife is a griffin, and our daughter, Megan, is a lion. I feel like I'm talking in a secret code only MHC grads would know.

[@moxiemegan470]

@@RemoteFlyFishing lol that’s because you are, I need to get my blue lion sticker for my car ha

[@grahamquigley8818]

Very interesting. Been keeping an eye on all this for a while now. Travelled thru this area much, decades ago. Thanks for the video. Gooday from Australia.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

I thought about comparing scenes from videos I posted last June during the drought to video I captured this year. Might be interesting.

[@AhJodie]

Beautiful, thank you.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

You are welcome!

[@anonymous915]

The "hail" looked more like graupel.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

I did! That's why I had to take a close up shot. It certainly wasn't hard like hail.

[@cyberash3000]

in the uk we call that sleet. or hail.

[@cyberash3000]

we dont differentiate

[@josephs8364]

@@cyberash3000 we have sleet here in the US too, and hail. Graupel as well.. there’s a difference in them all

[@michellebyrom6551]

Having commented on part 1 I have to put a follow up here. The damage to the northern entrance/roads is scary. When they fail its so fast there's no getting away from them. At around 3.5 minutes is a standard view in Ireland. Actually, right now Britain is on red alert for its hottest (and dry) heatwave ever from Friday to Tuesday. Here in Derry its pleasantly warm and I put some towels on the line to dry. Ha. Weather got me. Ten minutes later we got heavy, persistent rain for over 2 hours. I had to put the towels back in the machine for a spin. Lol. Anyway, the weather you showed around 7 minutes, we only get that occasionally in the winter. Thankfully not in June. Stay well.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

Michelle, thank you for your comments. Fortunately no one died from the damage and flooding. Credit the Yellowstone Park Service for responding quickly and making tough decisions to protect us and the other visitors to the park. The first time I saw Ireland was flying over it as the sun was rising. From high above it was so green it looked like a Columbian Emerald.

[@sm3296]

Same thing happened in BC last year, only it was the trans Canada highway that was blown out.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

I didn't know that. But - it is an area I want to explore!

[@darylholly1971]

Well executed. Beautiful.. Love the natives Been there ...thru there. Blessed to have had oppurtunity... As are you...big time..enjoy while it's still there

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

Well said

[@seamripper0000]

@3:20 we call that grapple in Colorado.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

It was grapple! It was grappling on us!

[@utube6239]

i hate seeing wild animals caged up whether in a park or in a zoo. They belong in the wilds their natural home.

[@RemoteFlyFishing]

I agree

[@goose4284]

They are there either from injury or no longer scared of humans and were causing issues. Was there last sept.

[@peterk8909]

Much of the money raised in places like this and zoos goes towards conservation and research. In my former state of NJ, zero public funds are used. Hunting and fishing licenses are the only funding for wildlife.

[@cosmiccharlie8294]

See how fragile our modern lives are?

[@charlesdobbs4570]

I bet those Wild Animals just love being caged up.