July 14, 2008

Yellowstone Park June 7, 2008

Filed under: Trip Reports — Copyright©Beth McDaniel           

Can you believe it is snowing in Yellowstone Park today?  At the higher elevations we saw 4- 6 inches of snow.  Dunraven Pass is closed due to avalanche danger.  We saw a cute cinnamon colored black bear by the side of the road in Mammoth.  It stayed there and ate grass while we took video from the car.  We had a great viewing day as we watched a wolf pack chasing elk in Lamar Valley.  We watched as the elk chased them back to keep them away from their calves.  A grizzly bear joined the hunt looking through the sage brush.  One of the wolves had a elk calf head in his mouth and headed back to the den.  We saw 2 grizzly bears, 3 black bears, 1 moose, 12 wolves, 5 coyotes, and 2 newborn antelope fawns.

Add to: | Digg it | RawSugar | Slashdot | Y! MyWeb

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>