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A lovely day and evening greeted us all in Ann Arbor. There are fewer but still hungry skeeters. I enjoyed a quiet dinner overlooking the quiet ravine. The chippies make so much noise for being so tiny! One meandering gaze takes in the ferociously large fungi on the wi-fi tree. a foot or more inContinue reading “Fungi and Fox”

… it looks like a straight shot on the map from Gardiner to Great Falls via US 89 … and .. you misread those contours and misread the actual vertical experience of the trip!  Travel from Gardiner to Livingston was as much a delight on the way out, as the way in — elk, osprey,Continue reading “You know you’re in Montana when …”

I am craning my neck to catch every angle as the time in Wonderland is coming to a close. Time feels precious, even though I’ll be in Montana again and Bob has extended a generous invitation. Then a white wolf (not the same but an example) crests near the top of the ridge near/past Blacktail,Continue reading “White Wolf!”

Back to Slough Creek from the moose and osprey … nada from the restroom/dumpster area either out to the carcass or out to the den.  But then we walk up to pre-Bob’s Nob, a gravelly uneven but roaded hike for “only” one-quarter mile or so.  Bob carries his 50 lbs of camera equipment & tripod,Continue reading “An Exhausted Mom”

So we drive on down the Northeast Entrance Road further into the Lamar Valley, as someone (John) says they’ve seen Moose past Conjunction Flow, I think along Soda Butte Creek.  We see four, though the others say there are 8 moose out there.  Get them in the field glasses … and immediately think of RukContinue reading “Moose and Birds”

Friday, April 23, 2021 At breakfast, I talk with Scott a bit more.  His wife, the healthiest eater he knows, makes some awesome protein bars, which we all devour.  Scott leaves by 5:45AM … Bob and I are out the door around 6:15AM. Snow!  Cloud fog …  Really grateful Bob is driving.  He drives theseContinue reading “The Wolf Clan”

Finishing up, April 22, 2021 On we go … with some obscure tips — The Park has one-holer restrooms … and Purell dispensers.  Bob’s wisdom from decades of field work is, if you see a restroom use it.  You don’t know where the next one might be or how long you might be in anContinue reading “Odds and Ends of a YNP Outing”

We arrive near Junction Butte at the pullout with restroom … the Junction Butte pack’s den is on a slope north of the road facing south (steep hill, former coyote den, squared by four sets of evergreens) and a kill on the south side of the road where we saw two blacks and maybe oneContinue reading “Slough Creek / Junction Butte Pack”

Further down the northern road on the April 22 evening visit, lotsa bison and people on either side!  People parked and waited for a two year old bear in either Phantom Lake or the next one (the next one, I think) to come out.  It had been denning under the road somehow … can’t rememberContinue reading “Phantom Lake”