For The Yellowstone part .. Bear box and never eat in your tent.. .... if you have before... get a new tent and never do that again

Bears sense of smell as far as food goes is very good. .. they may tear up your tent looking for the food you may have spilled last year.


+1) summer high, weather map fans , rotates clockwise .. so off the North pacific that cell spins winds down from the north....

If you go in the winter low pressure cells rotate counterclockwise so storms blow from the south..