Wally,

Are you taking about those doomsday/survivalist guys under the golden steeple?

Jimbo   

Yeah, Wally, that's them!  They own half the land in the valley, per my rafting guide.  He tells me you can drive tractor trailers through their underground bunkers.  They are waiting for the massive cataclysm when the world teeters on the brink of a disastrous end.  Then they all jump into their bunkers, ride it out with their supplies behind their gun turrets, etc., & wait for their saints & demi-gods to come fetch them after all the fireworks are over.

Or, at least, that was sort of how it was put to me.

I never actually ran into any of those folks that I know of.  I merely asked, "Who are those folks behind those high barbed wire topped fences under the tall golden steeple?"  We floated right past their complex.  Later, I came back & fished right across the river from them.  My son caught a nice trout right in there, too.

You know, I don't really think their bunkers will do that all that much good if the Yellowstone caldera ever really blew its cork....

Later,

Jimbo  

Before you plan to paddle Yellowstone, you may want to read the August, 2009 edition of National Geographic. I noticed that Q is outside the 'fallout zone'.

Jimbo wrote on Aug 18^th, 2009 at 5:51pm:

Hey Jimbo
It was twenty years ago but my wife and I honeymooned in yellowstone for almost 2 weeks and I got to know it a bit. If you go back PM me. There are some places where the dandy cutts aren't so educated.......pretty good lick to get in though.