Hoesntly didn't spend much time in the actual front hotel part. We worked in the employee kitchen. But what I remember it was nice. The park was going through a transformation at that time as it was on 2 years removed from the wild fires of 88. Did a few hikes in the burned areas, it was amazing to see the regeneration starting but was also sad due to the destruction. I do remember thinking the burned trees on the ground looked fake, almost like plastic. Might have been the hit of acid I took from Florida Dan. We hiked to a remote mt lake and I caught a beautiful rainbow trout that made my day, along with the sex with Minnesota Amy(she didn't go on the hike but I saw her when we got back and told her i was tripping for one of the first times so she volunteered to keep me company) when I got back to our employee dorm. Until My buddy, went to Au, pretending to be a sleep broke out the Polaroid camera.she kinda got pissed, especially when he asked if he could get some next. Ah good times.

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The Yellowstone fires of 1988 together formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control with increasing winds and drought and combined into one large conflagration, which burned for several months. The fires almost destroyed two major visitor destinations and, on September 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency personnel for the first time in its history.[1] Only the arrival of cool and moist weather in the late autumn brought the fires to an end. A total of 793,880 acres (3,213 km2), or 36 percent of the park was affected by the wildfires.[2]

Thousands of firefighters fought the fires, assisted by dozens of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft which were used for water and fire retardant drops. At the peak of the effort, over 9,000 firefighters were assigned to the park.