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Show 28 When she glanced back at the road again, Janey vias horrified to see a buffalo standing only four feet ahead of her on a direct collision course. Screaming inside her helmet, Janey dragged her feet on the snow to slovi her speed as she swerved the snowmobile to miss the buffalo - by inches. "If we had collided, it would have been goodby Janey," she declares. "Those animals weigh half a ton, literally, and I didn't have any brakes." Two days later, on her way back from Mammoth Hot Springs, Janey again came upon buffalo on the road - three of them, a bull, a cow, and a calf. This time she had brakes, and she viasn't about to blunder into another confrontation viith the huge beasts. "We have a saying in the park," Janey mentions, "that you can make a buffalo go anywhere it viants to go." She viaited in the snovi for an hour and a half before the buffalo family finally meandered far enough to the side of the road that she could whiz past. Snowmobilers aren't the only park visitors who have problems in the winter. Cross-country skiers come to Yellowstone, too, to travel the trails leading to Old Faithful and other geysers - if a column of water and steam is aviesome during the summer season, it's even more spectacular erupting through a blanket of ice and snovi into air so cold that the steam expands into billowing clouds. Near Janey's living quarters, steam from the geyser basins would condense on the trees, where it froze layer by layer until the evergreens were coated ethereally with thick clumps of vihite ice. Janey called them "ghost trees." The skiers would usually stay for a fevi days inside the park, spending the nights in lightweight-but-warm sleeping bags inside tents they carried viith them on back packs. Sometimes novice skiers discovered |