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M I S S I N G Y E L L O W S T O N E
Michael Brohm
Angry Sky. Lamar River, 2009
According
to an armageddon website, the Bible Code (whatever that is) predicts
that Yellowstone Park’s Super Volcano will erupt in 2010. If I’m going
to meet my maker in a cataclysmic event, this is the one I choose.
A
woman is trampled by a Yellowstone Bison while flming her friend
taunting the animal. The video is view by thousands on youtube,
probably hoping to re enact the event during their next park visit.
A
novice fly fisherman, probably after watching A River Runs Through It,
overloads himself with gear, wades too deeply into the current and is
swept away. His body is found 6 miles downstream.
Double Rainbow. Lamar Valley, 2009
Summer in Yellowstone Park as a Darwinian workshop.
After
more than a decade of making an annual trip to Yellowstone, I didn’t
make it this year. I’m a poorer man for it. Instead, one of my friends
fished a cold, rainy week on the Bighorn River in Montana, loving every
minute of it. The other friend rafted for 21 days through the Grand
Canyon. I made a trek to Russia near the Ural mountains to continue a
photo project.
As
summer ends, I look at photos from trips past and vow to never let
another year slip by without standing in the cold current of the
Yellowstone river.
Sunrise, Hayden Valley, 2009
---M.B.