Hike the Cougar Cabin Trail - Yellowstone National Park
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- This was a beautiful day hike in Gods Beautiful Creation. Starting out early on this hike is always best because it can get hot in the afternoon. This was a little over 12 miles.
Excellent video. Assists me w/ recovery from hip surgery. Thks 👊😎🇺🇸👍
Wow, the fireweed is still blooming.
It's good to have you back Stan. Happy Labor Day.
Nice hike , would love to go an hike that cougar creek trail. Thank you van looks like a beautiful day in gods beautiful creation.
Thanks for posting Stan. I’ve been concerned about you. It’s been awhile. Hope all is well.
I’m always wondering how wet your feet must be. That, or you have the best waterproof boots in the world. All that early morning grass is soaking. Thanks for making these and allowing me to escape back to Yellowstone!
The Kenetrek boots and the gaiters keep my feet dry.
Absolutly overjoyed to have a new video, thank you!
Beautiful hike! Looks like not many take that route, and fall is descending!
Happy Labor Day Stan! Thanks for sharing your hike!! Mine was in the rain today 😃👏
What a great atmosphere bud, this was presented so nicely! Fog fits perfectly!
God's beautiful creation indeed!
Thanks for sharing 😊
Hi Stan, my 1960 USGS layer shows a little different routing than the more recent USGS map like what you displayed at the beginning of this video. The difference in routing happens to be close to where you turned around, and you thought that area looked strange compared to your map. If you have Gaia premium you can see both layers. Just letting you know, Josh
That is a beautiful area, and I was fortunate not to get lost, several times in the area. I have heard stories of hikers wondering while working for Xanterra. Thanks, Stan!
Enjoyed this so much (like I do with all your videos). Thanks Stan.
Omg even with a map and compass GPS I'd still get lost 😳
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Hard to follow the trail you're on. Was this filmed recently? Thanks for sharing.
Yes. There is no trail past the cabin.
Just love the landscape. do you think the fires through this area were from 1988?
Yes, and some of it was from a fire about 5 years ago. Here is a video that will show fire burn from about 5 years ago: czcams.com/video/HlukFSY8DCk/video.htmlsi=HZm00OZ3KM5vRCth
Great thanks! I lived in Cody in 1988. Really miss it, but I always have your windows into that world. Thanks so much!
Very nice video 👍😎🦅🇺🇸🦬
Oh Stan, I was just getting into your hike when you turned around, BUMMER!
Thank you for finding a Deer, I love Deer, all animals, but, could you tell if that Deer was a Buck or a Doe?
Obviously a Buck, as it was growing antlers!
@@randallmarsh1187 hello friend, obviously, I didn't see any antlers that is the reason for the question. Duh.
@@didibolter9362 Look at the 7:18 to 7:20 mark and you can see antlers as he moves between the trees.
Beautiful views. As there were lots of burned trees still showing, how long ago was the fire? Noticed lots of little evergreens growing.
Are a lot of the trails not marked well?
Interesting, so many dead trees...
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Cougar Cabin Trail is one of the rare YNP trails not shown on AllTrails app (while the Gneiss Creek Trail is). Based on your video, it doesn't look like there's much of a trail to follow.
There is not. Here is another video on trying to find the trail that you might like. czcams.com/video/hsB27OHGDoE/video.htmlsi=2trd9_azHTLErHy_
@@StanMills Well, I don't think I'd like looking for that long lost trail, as I'll be on my own. I'll be in Yellowstone soon (September 20 - 28) and have been looking over my National Geographic Trails Illustrated maps and AllTrails app to help me decide which hikes to take. (Having worked in the park for 5 summers, I've been on quite a few Yellowstone trails.) It looks like the Cougar Creek Cabin Trail skirts along the Madison River and the West Entrance Road for about a mile, starting from the Seven-MIle Bridge trail head, then heads northwest to the patrol cabin at Cougar Creek. But you're saying there's not much of a trail to follow to the patrol cabin. Hence, I'll pass on attempting this trail too. Thanks for posting though!
@@stokebailey if you stay on the Gniess Creek trail it is marked good. I have seen both grizzlies and wolves on the trail.
Do grizzly's frequent this area of the park?
Yes
Evening outbound park traffic got treated to a photogenicGrizzly plodding along the Madison River about a mile east of the Gneiss trailhead a couple of weeks ago. Other than the traffic jam, it was a great way to end our quick visit to the park. I always assumed that stretch of road is too close to civilization to have much wildlife…
Yup
Not much of a trail in that area