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    Yellowstone National Park offers some of the most beautiful and exciting activities. It contains some of the most interesting facts. Wyoming has some of the most beautiful streams, geysers, and mountains in the United States. There are some really interesting things about Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park is a place of service and a favorite of millions of visitors each year. The park is an essential stopover for a good vacation. As we drove, we could admire the park from the comfort of our vehicle and rest at one of the many roadside picnic areas. The park has thousands of kilometers of trails. Lewis and Clark were the first white people to explore the Yellowstone region, including one of the most famous hunters and loggers of that period, John Colter. The expedition took place in 1908, Colter returned to Yellowstone and captured this area and in doing so became the first white visitor to what is now Yellowstone National Park. His return, his “tales” were so incredible that no author or cartographer wanted to publish them out of fear among his friends. By the end of 1840, the fur trade was coming to an end. The trappers who remained in the area adapted and among them was trapper Jim Bridger. Bridger, with the fur trade over, became a legendary guide, scout, and storyteller. With his knowledge of what is now Yellowstone National Park, he became the first "geographer" of the region and was the person who guided Captain WF Reynolds, including Dr. Ferdinand Hayden and the Reynolds expedition of 1859. During the years 1850 to 1870, the Yellowstone miners helped publicize the region with little more credibility than their trapping ancestors. In 1863, Walter and his party explored through the Yellowstone until...... middle of paper ...... on which we stand is an ancient Jackson Lake whose gray-green waters are dotted with calved icebergs. valley glaciers emerging from the Teton. At about 9,000 feet elevation, bare ice gives way to slush, then old dry snow. Reaching the Yellowstone boundary would be awesome. Behind are the Teton peaks. The summit of Mount Sheridan lies a few hundred feet below the ice. A chain of dark humps barely piercing a white expanse marks the crest line of the Absaroka Range. Here are some facts: Approach the area around present-day Yellowstone Lake, the ice beneath your feet is approximately 4,000 feet thick. In all directions, all the way to the horizon, a boundless, featureless snow-covered ice plain lies silent and lifeless under a dazzling sun. We reached the top of the Yellowstone ice floe. It's a place that everyone I wish to visit in their life.