Hawks Rest is an infamous steep and high "landmark" just S of the Yellowstone boundry in the SE corner of the park.  That area of the US in famous for being the "most remote" place in the lower 48....defined by distance to the nearest road.

I was planning a hike there...to the famous Thorofare patrol cabin, which sits just yards inside the Yellowstone boundry near the SE corner of the park.  Just a couple miles S of there, on the flanks of Hawk's Rest is the National Forest Ranger cabin in the Bridger-Teton Wilderness.

From there, these two patrol groups run the show on the myriad of hunter, backpackers, cowboys, poachers, outfitters that inhabit this remote region.  This books author.....Gary Ferguson.....spent a summer there as a Forest Ranger.  He actually walked all the way down from Montana...and walked out as well.  This book is a politically nuetral group of essays as he takes you through his summer there.  He recounts the wild and crazy right-wing, left-wing characthers that make up the transient population back there.....including the famous Yellowstone ranger Bob Jackson who was dumped on by Yellowstone mucks for his position on outlawing Elk hunting over salt-licks, just outside the park boundry.  He also describes a couple of meetings with Lone Eagle Woman...(whom I've spoken with via the Yellowstone chat page).

The author takes you through this region by the passing of the seasons...then gives a little vignette or essay on people, wolves, elk, gizzley.  I thought he stayed pretty neutral from a political vantage.  If you want to hike here....I would call this a "must read".

If you'd like to see Lone Eagle Woman pics of the upper Yellowstone, it's headwaters on Yount's Peak, the Thorofare creek, Hawks Rest, Two Ocean Plateau....then check out her photo page (over 19 pages of photos)....of the area.  They're quite good...
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