Beartooth Wilderness, Wyoming – BUGGY

When I checked with a Ranger in Yellowstone National Park regarding conditions in Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness he looked up sharply:

There’s a lot of mosquitoes up there, you know!

I laughed it off. How bad could it be compared with the Canadian Rockies?

… There are 700 miles (1,100 km) of trails in the wilderness, hundreds of lakes, a few dozen streams and a similar number of small glaciers can be found in the wilderness.

… The Beartooths have the largest unbroken area of land in excess of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in altitude in the U.S. outside of Alaska. Animals found in the wilderness include bald eagles and the threatened grizzly bear, lynx, bull trout as well as the endangered wolf. …

Here’s the Beartooth itself, as seen from the Montana side.

Wikipedia – Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

… We’d recommend you wait until September to hike here. Or take a shotgun to disperse the bugs once-in-a-while.