Yellowstone
We started out at 5:45AM, 38 degrees, with the goal to get
Hayden Valley early. Many animals in
this area, but also many people. En
route, Beth wasn’t feeling too well and went to the back of the Trek for a bit,
thinking Greg had looked at the map and knew where we were going. Not.
We ended up going the wrong way for quite a while, so had to
backtrack. Unhappy campers!
Still we ended up at Hayden Valley around 7:30. Greg spied this bear cub near the
mudpots…looks like he might have gone for a dip!
There were lots of
bison, including some young ones, roaming the hills, munching grass and looking
disdainfully at the foolish people. (Later
this week we heard another story of a woman mauled by a bison when she wanted
to get her picture taken close to one!)
There are warnings and signs everywhere, but some people just don’t use
their brains!
We drive further north to the Grand Canyon of the
Yellowstone. This is a shot of the lower
falls of the Yellowstone River, from Artist’s Point. Beth walked the trails a bit while Greg made
coffee. Beautiful yellow canyon –
amazing to think of the power of the water that created this!
After a few more quick stops we headed out the west entrance
to the park, into the town of West Yellowstone.
Found a library there and spent a few hours blogging, emailing and
generally catching up on things. Then
Greg treated us to lunch at Arby’s and we continued into Montana. We stopped at a Forest Service office and
spoke to Karen who gave us directions to some nice dispersed camping sites in
an area called Beaver Creek.
We continued into Montana Canyon, site of a nasty earthquake
in 1959 which killed 28 people, many of them campers who were crushed in
avalanches. Found Beaver Creek Road and
a nice campsite near Beaver Creek. We
gathered some fallen wood and Greg cut and split it for a good campfire.
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| berries near the campsite |
Only saw 3 cars pass our site all afternoon/evening. Nice and quiet. We walked along the creek and on the
road. Found some interesting rocks for
our collection!
There was a nice breeze and the clouds rolled in and we had some light rain.
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