@Nemo14 it is very cool that you got to see Steamboat erupt. When we saw it a couple of years ago it hadn't gone off in about a year. Hubs and I were looking at it and it was steaming a lot and they lady ran up excitedly and looked at the steam and started shouting to her husband, "Today's the day, today's the day", in regards to it erupting. She was so excited and hubs and I were amused by her shouts. Later we saw that it did erupt, but it wasn't on that day it was two months later when we saw it on the news. So now hubs and I joke with each other "Today's the day!" when we are going to do something fun.
Also in regards to bear attacks it was just on our Minnesota news that a man was recently attacked near,not in, Yellowstone by two bears possibly grizzly bears. He and his friends were hiking on marked but backwoods areas and he was at the front of the group and encountered the bears first. He had bear spray, his friend had a picture of him holding the bear spray in his hand (I think shortly before they moved on to where he was attacked). The man was lucky, he has survived (last I heard). He himself is a doctor and one of the friends was a firefighter with emt type training. So stay safe out there.
