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Rubbernecking with the rest of the crowd at a pair of bald eagles glaring imperiously down from their nest, we were taken aback by the guy who rushed over with camcorder in hand and a face flashing excitement.“ Did you see that wolf cross the road carrying a fox?” he gushed. We blinked at him, wondering what the Yellowstone National Park staff had slipped into his cornflakes that morning.
“ Right here,” he insisted, pointing to a spot just behind the place where we’ d stood, gawking at birds that suddenly seemed common, trivial even.“ He just crossed right here with a fox in his mouth.” He shook his head.“ I can’ t believe you missed it.”
We couldn’ t believe it, either. That’ s Yellowstone, though: a veritable three-ring safari and special-effects razzle-dazzle where, no matter what you’ re taking in, there’ s something else you’ re missing. Glacier National Park, on the north end of Montana, is the same way. Winding along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, a traveler’ s head bobs from side to side like that of a spectator at a Wimbledon match, ogling mountain goats grazing on this hillside, then Bird Woman Falls tumbling graciously down that cliff, then the parade of snowcapped peaks constantly vying to eclipse one another.