March 26th - Yellowstone National Park

We decided that this would be a "down" day (i.e., no skiing) so Jim, Ann, Cait, Colin, Chelsea and I piled in the car for a drive to Gardiner, MT and the northwest entrance of Yellowstone. Amazingly, it turned out to be another sunny day. Of course the drive was scenic and there were very few visitors to the park today making the road blissfully empty. Only the northernmost road within the park is open traveling from Mammoth to Cooke City.

We saw much wildlife and the highlights included five (!) golden eagles and two grizzly bears. The bears were high on a hillside so it was not a great viewing, even with our binoculars. We really need to have a spotting scope for these regular trips into the park!

We stopped at many roadside pullouts to scan for wolves but no luck.

Here's a view from the middle of the road in the Lamar Valley: