Category: Wyoming

Badlands National Park, SD – Cedar Pass Campground – Friday May 18, 2018

Today’s drive:

Stopped at Devil’s Tower National Monument for a couple of hours, I walked around the tower.

Found our site, dropped the pickup, went to the dump and filled with water. We plan to be here for 6 nights leaving the 24th moving to Custer State Park for two weeks.

In site 8.

The campground can be defined by the dump and water.

This is the potable water, hose at top bent, not much water can get through.

In the middle of the hose is electrical tape with water coming out of both ends of the wrap.

Water spraying out at the end of the hose where the fitting is worn out.

Our campsite and the view

Yellowstone Natl Park – Sunday June 11, 2017

Back inside the park and fished the Madison Campground area.  This time I fished the other side of the river.

I parked up by the bridge and used the bridge to get on the other side of the river.  I used my new waders while fishing where the Gibbons and Firehole Rivers meet, this creates the Madison River.  The river coming in from the right is the Gibbons River and the river coming in from the bottom is the Firehole River.
I spent quite a while fishing this area of the Firehole and caught 6 fish.  It was a good day with a 30 minute rain shower.

Bakers Hole Campground – Wednesday May 31, 2017

We left Yellowstone this morning and drove 19 miles to Bakers Hole FS Campground 4 miles north of West Yellowstone.  We are in site 63 only a few feet from the Madison River. This site does not have electricity but it has the view and with our portable solar panel and generator we are fine.  We can stay here for 16 night at $8.00 a night.  Signed up for seven nights to start and the level fishing will decide what we will do next.

View out the couch windows. 

Yellowstone National Park – Wednesday June 1, 2016

This was Mammoth Hot springs area day.
On the way up to Mammoth we stopped along the road to see a bear.  Turned out to be a grizzly with two cubs.  I will spare you having to look at all the great pictures I took of this bear, 1105.
We spent several hours looking at the visitor’s center and walking around the old fort area.

This shows the sizes of Yellowstone volcanic  eruptions.  The little one on the left is the ash put out by Mt. Saint Helens in 1981 and the other three are the different Yellowstone eruptions.

One of the elk had left it’s calf by one of the buildings for safe keeping.   The park service had to post a ranger in the area to ensure one touched the calf.

This is a Great Horned Owl nest with 2 young in it.

Map

 

Yellowstone National Park – Tuesday May 31, 2016

Today was my birthday so Richard and I were on the road early to look for wolves and fish on the other side of the park.  Out the door at 5:10 a.m., wait for the ice to thaw off the winds and on the road by 5:15 a.m..
Drove to the northeast section of the park Lamar Valley to look for wolves at a known wolf den.  The den is about 1.5 miles across the valley from the road and view point.

We saw:
White swan
Beaver
Buffalo and calves
Gray wolf
Dark brown wolf
Four wolf cubs
Osprey
Pronghorn
Grizzly bear
Black bear
Big Horn Sheep
Mountain Goat and young

Stopped along the road to watch a black bear on the ridge line on the other side of the Lemar river.  Ten minutes later the bear had strolled along the ridge, down to the river, swam the river, climbed up our side of the river bank and was 20 feet away.  Below are a few of the 292 pictures I took during his 10 minute stroll.
The bear walk right through the crowd of people who had formed along the road, across the road and up the steep hill behind us.  It was amazing to watch.

Here are some of the picture taken today.

Osprey Nest 

First picture of the bear on the opposite side of the river on a ridge line.

Worked his way down to the river.

Maps