I spent a couple of weeks in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming recently, celebrating a 40 year friendship that began in the summer of 1984, when I took a job at Yellowstone National Park as a cook at Old Faithful Inn. It was there I met Kurt and we fell in easy with each other as we discovered that each of us loved to go backpacking. So, to celebrate our 40th year of friendship, we went back to Yellowstone for a visit, with stops in Idaho and Montana along the way. Post Yellowstone, we drove to the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, in the Bighorn National Forest, to the east of Cody, Wyoming for a 6 day backpacking trip. It was simply stunning and physically challenging.…