Yellowstone trip?

Question

a buch of me and my friends want to go to yellowstone stone montana next year for graduation... we want to do all these things but we don't know about gas.... we want to do everything there.... but we dont know where to go are if it cost some thing....

Answer 1

The yellowstone trip . Grand Tetons for details.

Club members are working fundraising to subsidize this huge adventure. If all goes as planned, the kayaks and gear will be transported to the park and the club will pay the park boating permit fees. (2007 canoe or kayak rentals were $50 for 24 hours, or as much as $13 an hour. If we kayak part of four days we save $200 per boat.)

Below, trumpeter swans and young moose photos courtesy of NPS:



We will have four or five official kayaking days suitable for beginners and plan to do a short to quite long (your choice of distance, with or without a Ranger Naturalist), hike into Cascade Canyon. The official days of the trip will probably be Sept. 6 to 14. Participants can stay for a shorter, longer or much longer trip. Usually people go to Yellowstone National Park as well.

The trip cost paid to the Outdoor Club for the Sept. 2007 trip was $100 members / $120 other students. NO REFUNDS for no-shows. The 2008 price is yet to be determined.

The trip cost money will be spent spent one of two ways:

1) (If we can't transport the De Anza owned kayaks), on rental of canoes for 1 to 3 to 5 days and if there is leftover money, possibly on snacks. Canoe & kayaks rentals (2007) $50 for 24 hours from the Dornan's rental outfit in Moose, for use anywhere we would bring them, or (2007) $13 an hour at Colter Bay for use only at the Colter Bay area during daylight hours, if Colter Bay has water.

2) If we can transport the kayaks, each person will get $75 of their gas expense refunded to them after the trip (they must produce receipts and do paperwork). $25 of each trip participant's fee will be pooled and split among the people who help with kayak loading before the trip and especially unloading into storage after the trip, and be credited towards a future (within one year) club event.

Why do we charge this load/unload fee? Because on one of our first trips using the De Anza owned kayaks over 20 people went to Lake Tahoe, but only three women showed to help the faculty advisor and spouse unload all the kayaks at the end of the trip.

If they can be transported, the club will provide: kayaks, paddles, drybags, and lifejackets, (which must be worn and strapped securely). If the group can transport the De Anza owned kayaks, the club will pay the kayak permit fees that Grand Teton park charges. Again, all this is if the De Anza-owned kayaks can be transported, if not, we will rent canoes in the park.

Trip participants are responsible for all other arrangements and costs, including, but not limited to: food, park entrance fees, campsite, cabin or hotel cost, gas and other transportation costs, sleeping and eating gear and other personal gear.

The club has noticed that in the past sometimes people can afford to go on a trip, but not to be involved in all the activities that might cost a little extra, so we did fundraising for a few perks on the 2007 Tetons trip. For the first ten people signed up the club will pay $10 each towards two group brunches after early morning kayaking, and $10 for the pre-hike boat ride across Jenny Lake to cut 2 miles each way off the major planned hike and let people explore farther.

  

TOTAL COST???

Since different people will have different budgets:

drive or fly; some may camp, some may get a hotel room / suite, (most usually share a cheap cabin),

... the trip cost will vary.

Below you can find:

The cheap trip,

The not-so cheap trip

The slightly more costly trip, but less driving time also known as the I-can't-get-much-time-off-