Yellowstone is a big park and relatively empty of people, except on the figure ‘8’ loop road that is the only way to travel through the landscape (hikers excluded). Just to get a sense of the scales involved, I clipped the two following images from Google Earth, both taken at 50 miles altitude. While the… Continue reading Driving around Yellowstone
Author: hmelton
A Bear-y Good Day
And yes, I’m ashamed of the title. With the snow last night, the road over Mt. Washburn was closed, so our trolling-for-wildlife headed from Canyon to Norris and then North to Mammoth Hot Springs. About midway between Norris and Hot Springs, we ran into a rapidly developing Bear-Jam, with the two rangers giving contradictory orders.… Continue reading A Bear-y Good Day
Seeing Stumps
We’ve been in Yellowstone for more that a week now, and before that, we were in Rocky Mountain National Park. This means that a large portion of the day we’re constantly scanning the horizon for wildlife. After a while, you get trained to see colors, sizes and shapes that have a high chance of being… Continue reading Seeing Stumps