Tragedy in Cooke City, Montana, northeast of Yellowstone on the way to Cody. Cooke City is basically a one road town, usually closed in the winter, and it has some nice sandwich shops. The campground where the bear attach took place is certainly right off the road. A bear attacked tents, and the folks had taken all the precautions (food either hanging from trees or in locked metal storage containers).
We drove thru Cooke City in the summer of 2007. We were shaking as leaving Yellowstone, a ranger had us stop and she said (her voice shaking!) "keep driving until the next pull in; there's a grizzly with a meal maybe 50 yards off the road!" We did and the grizzly was there, having an early lunch.
The photograph is the Bear Tooth Mountains viewed to the west from downtown Cook City.
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