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Polar bear with carrot

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Northern Trek

Oxbow Bend
Leslie and I have just completed an epic trip to Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons and the surrounding areas. We logged about 1100 miles on the rent a car in five days just tooling around the gorgeous and largely deserted landscape. We saw tons of wildlife - three grizzly, six moose, a wolf, pronghorn, elk, deer, grouse, bald eagles, scads of bison, just an amazing journey through the shimmering aspens at the perfect time of the year. Not a lot of humans, thankfully.

In the coming days, I am going to put my notes together and post a journal of my trip but thought I would give you a few photos as a little taste. After all they are worth at least a thousand words.

We were snowed in yesterday morning in Yellowstone and had to drive west through Montana and small town Idaho to get back to our plane in Jackson. We got lost but finally made it.

Please click on the photos and view them full size. Will try to write something tomorrow. Enjoy!


Castle Geyser


Morning Glory Pool



Grizzly, Big Thumb Creek
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone



Moose and calf, Signal Mountain

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kudos to you,
Nice photography. That's one mean and nasty looking Grizz.
Great shot of Castle Geyser.
I was envious.
KJ

Anonymous said...

Ok I need a better camera dammit. Beautiful shots!
Deli Guy.

Sanoguy said...

Glorious!!!! It's too bad you did not have some good sites to photograph!!

grumpy said...

that photo of the Morning Glory Pool makes me wanna dive right in.