Into Deepest Yellowstone by Philip Knight

I picked this up at the discount rack at the university bookstore in Bozeman. Knight describes a summer long, 600 mile backpack he and his girl friend (now wife) took through the mountains adjacent to Yellowstone National and Grand Teton National Parks as well as in the parks themselves. He's a fairly descriptive writer and I enjoyed his narrative about the various trails and off trail routes.  I found his descriptions of adverse weather, nervousness over grizzlies (most of the hike was in prime grizz habitat), getting lost and other challenges fairly enlightening and similar to a lot of my own experiences. I guess what particularly intrigued me was much of the hike was in the wildlands adjacent to the park - the Madisons, Gallatins, Gros Ventres, Absarokas and the Beartooths - which are often overlooked when writing about the Yellowstone region.  These areas just outside of the park are often just as spectacular, sometimes more so, than the park itself. On the downside, his rants about the areas of clearcuts, the use of off road vehicles, even where legal, and outfitters and hunters, was a little over the top.  Irrational, even.  As much as I hate to see this kind of stuff in our wild lands, much of it was established years ago and we're going to have live and work with these folks in a constructive manner if we're going work things out for everyone. Knight strikes me as one who wouldn't compromise on anything which to me is a formula for getting nothing done.  Oh, and his poetry was terrible. But still, all in all, a pretty good read for people interested in the greater Yellowstone area.