Apparently in semi-coma, cold and groggy, a golden mantled ground squirrel arouses from his hibernation and huddles up to the stove each time a fire is built in one of the smaller warehouses. After he thaws out a feed is welcome. -- The winter crew has for pets a pine squirrel, a golden mantled ground squirrel, and a snowshoe rabbit, all of them have the freedom of the messhall.....

Bullcook Blackie's conservatory, with tin canes for flower pots includes sprouting parsnips, carrots, an onion, and a cabbage.....

Visitors acclimated to sea level atmospheric pressure seldom sleep soundly for the first night or two at the 7,000 feet elevation in the park.

Eighty tiers of twelve, sixteen and twenty inch wood stored for winter use in the messhall. The bunkhouse was rather cramped for space for a bit last fall.....there is considerably more room now......

It has been noted several times that telephone wires buried in the hard packed snow may be broken and the ends separated by several feet, yet give perfect service. Using a twenty-two mile telephone line as an aerial, our small radios have been able to pick up Atlantic Coast stations with ease.....

Wild animals get into the road cut and cannot scale the sheer bank the plow leaves.....Brown lemmings, rabbits, coyotes, marten, squirrels, porcupines, and mice are often found in that predicament.....

Snow slides catapulting down the rim wall into the lake form snowbergs, pretty against the blue waters as they float away.....

Where did the muskrat come from that was found wandering on the highway between snowbanks thirteen feet high and in the dead of winter, more than twenty miles from the nearest muskrat habitat.....who cares about all this stuff anyway?