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especially if the trend we are seeing now where S. Carolina and Arkansas appear to be the only really bad teams in the conference.

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Vandy needed a miracle to beat a bad NC State team, and beat Austin Peay and Delawarew by 19 and 9 at home, respectively. South Caroline would beat Vanderbilt by 30. Including them in the same breath as Arkansas is assinine.

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Anyone thinking this will be a beatdown is out of their minds. These coaching staffs know each other like the back of their hand. I don’t care how good our defense is. Chambliss is the best QB in the nation and it’s not relatively close. Going on the road in the SEC is hard, and this game is looking like it will be an all-timer. Hoping we pull out a close one.

1a) Alaska - I've been 4 times now and feel like i've only experienced 1% of what it has to offer.

1b) Backpacking in the rockies - Fishing for trout in high alpine lakes really can't be topped in my book. Alpine meadows are also my favorite landscape. Each one is uniquely different and I love how you really don't know what you're going to see when you look down into the next valley from the top of a saddle. The Wind Rivers are exceptional in this department.

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It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Woodward isn’t helping the SEC with all this.

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I brought up this question yesterday on SEC rant and everyone shot it down. :lol:

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Louisville is a good team. I didn’t expect yall to win. That was a good win.

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Nate Oaks

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Where do you people come from?

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can you enlighten the board? I'm curious but is there even access to most of the park? seems like mid September is the best time to visit after the crowds but before any freeze or substantial snow.

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There's an entire website dedicated to it, but i'll also give my experience.

Yellowstone in winter

The entire north road and both north entrances are open to public travel. This means you can only access the park from Montana in your personal vehicle.

Mammoth is full service throughout winter including the hotel, restaurant, gas stations, general store, etc. This is a fantastic place to stay as they have hot tub cabins, snow shoe / cross country skiing trails, and snow cat and snowmobile excursions that depart from the parking lot.

Old faithful lodge is also open throughout the winter, but you can't drive there. You have to either a) take a snow cat from mammoth or b) take a snow mobile. Snow mobiling must be through licensed outfitters around the park. There are lots of them, mostly in West Yellowstone and Gardner.

When i went in winter of 2017/2018, I stayed in one of the hot tub cabins and used that as my base camp. We did snow shoeing directly around mammoth a couple days though the area where the elk bed for the winter and saw thousands of elk up close. We drove to lamar valley a couple of times and saw some pretty amazing things that you won't see in the summer. A couple of highlights below;

- Herds of thousands of bison on frozen lakes
- Packs of wolves hunting. Many of them have black coats so they are extremely easy to spot in the winter. We saw them take down a bison in person.
- The winter landscape in Yellowstone is absolutely incredible, especially with all the geothermal features around the park which the wildlife flocks to.

There are some natural hot springs along the Gardner River that you can snow shoe to and soak in the river.

Snowmobiling through firehole canyon remains one of the coolest things I've done in my lifetime.

Yes, it's cold, but it's pretty similar to the weather that you'd experience at a ski resort which people from the south seem to enjoy. In my opinion, the pros of no traffic and an overabundance of wildlife (even more than what you see in the summer) combined with the unique winter activities available to you make it a better experience than sitting in your car dealing with idiot tourists for 12 hours a day. If you're backpacking through Yellowstone in the summer then you have my attention, but 99% of people from Louisiana aren't doing that.

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Staying in Cody

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Drive the Chief Joseph highway. The scenery is better than Yellowstone. That used to be my stomping grounds.

You can do a loop from Cody -> east entrance/buffalo bill (check out the dam while you're there) -> fishing bridge (cool hikes in this area like thunder point) -> hayden valley -> lamar valley -> northeast exit -> chief joe highway -> cody

Long day trip but guarantee it will be your best day.

Any excursions to the west side of the park and back to Cody are going to be a lot of hours in the car. I highly recommend staying in west yellowstone for a night if you venture to that side.

So WarmSoda is your alt. Got it.

Mauck had Michael Clayton, Devery Henderson, Dwayne Bowe, Skyler Green, and Craig Davis at receiver. Those first 3 guys had long NFL careers.

Flynn had ... Demetrius Byrd, Brandon LaFell, Early Doucet, Trindon Holliday, and freshman Terrence Tolliver. Also Les Miles as coach with Gary Crowton as OC. It was a run first offense and Flynn had to pull a rabbit out of his hat for damn near every completion.