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Show 31 at Yellowstone in winter, vihen there are so fevi visitors. "It's true that in the winter we don't have so many duties," she explains, "but it takes so much longer to do each thing that every duty becomes a major undertaking. The hours of daylight are short because vie're so far north; the sun rises at 8 AM and sets at h PM. Getting into all the necessary clothing takes a lot of time. If I've been out patrolling for four or five hours, vihich is as long as I can normally stand the cold, that gets me back home at about 3 in the afternoon. Then I get gas for the snowmobile - I have to mix my own gas and oil,.which takes a while because the oil gets thick from cold. I pull the snowmobile into the garage to clean it and check it and re-gas it - that takes an hour. Then I go inside and hang up all my snowmobile clothes to dry. After that I take a hot bath to warm myself, and fuss a lot over making supper. The evenings are long and I seldom see anyone, but I'm never lonely. Even though I can get one television station in the park, I rarely watch TV. I read a lot. All in all, it's as nice a way to spend the winter as any I know." |