The Long View.

The Beartooths' largest glacier is Castle Rock Glacier, curled on the plateau far away from threading trails. One morning, I saw the biggest black bear of my life between slats of lodgepole beside Silver Lake, fed off Grasshopper Glacier, both of us with nothing on our backs but the gray magic before dawn. The cinders land on the next bluff over, tearing into fir and lodgepole and old giants of white-bark pine. Glacier just won't be Glacier without glaciers, people say, weighing the loss of a namesake as much as the great slabs of ice themselves. [Extracted from the article]