Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel Yellowstone Nat'l Yellowstone National Park

Drove into Yellowstone mid-afternoon and got to see much of the park. Added buffalo and elk to list of animals we have seen. The park still shows effects of the great fire in 88 and significant areas are still charred and baron. We did much of the north loop today and will complete the park sometime tomorrow. Only dissappointment of the trip is the cost of the hotels and motels that have ranged from $129 to $239 adnd the gas prices that have stayed around $4.00 a gallon. When we got to the ho...

We arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs very tired, but excited. We didn't have much time for checking in, meeting the ground squirrel population, and eating before we had to meet our group in the lobby. We luckily snagged a single cabin. Matt and I unloaded the car while the girls were enamored with the ground squirrel colony. They would later learn that they were breaking many rules! Dinner was very good at the Mammoth Dining Room. Matt and I both tried the soup. This time it was a creamy squash ...

I made it to Mammoth and spent a night in the hotel before checking in for my job. They brought me back to Mammoth for ten days; but I am in a cabin w/o a bathroom or shower. First couple of nights, heater was out in the bathhouse. It has snowed every day so far. Started training and it is going well. Went out to Lamar Valley last night where we got photos of elk, bison, coyotes and a bear. We were suppose to be on a tour of the park today; but last night a lot of the park got heavy snow and ...

We spent 2 nights at the Lodge. And it snowed.

Day 3 5-3-09 Yellowstone National Park Today had a quick start to the day. We promptly got up and headed out, the first stop was the Roosevelt Arch, a historic site and one that I have never seen before. We stopped for a photo-op before driving under it. The Bison were already immediately out and visible with their brand new young one's. As we drove through the park before we even made it 5 miles in we ran in to a heard of Elk. The days events were quickly determined in the first 5 miles. We ...

Day 4 May 4, 2009 Today started out rather early, in which we got up to get ready for the day and get breakfast so that we could leave by 8am. We saw some nice wildlife, saw an Elk in velvet antlers, and 3 or 4 Griz off in the distance through spotting scopes and big camera lenses. Many hundred of Bison and probably 20-30 pronghorn. The tour covered the northern route to Tower Junction out past Lamar Valley and towards the Northeast entrance to the park. At one point they thought they saw som...

Day 5 May 5, 2009 It was a very early start this morning, we got up at 4:30 am to get ready to meet the instructor for our day. Everyone was at the lodge ready to go, the problem lied in there of the breakfast was not made so we had to wait. We started out heading to see if we could find any wolves but in the process got stopped by a herd of bighorn sheep. We took a few minutes to watch them and then headed out. It didn't take long before we found the Alpha Male for the Druid Peak pack, we wa...

Day 6 May 6, 2009 WOW! What a day! We left very promptly at 6am and drove out towards the NE entrance to the park shooting for Lamar Valley. Before Lamar though Clint hollered out that there was a black canine on a hill. So we backed up and sure enough we had the alpha male for the Agate Pack, his name Black Blaze. What was so awesome was he was heading for a bison and he was howling, he howled for the longest time, the howls were fabulous and watching him baying was just too cool. Hearing th...

We arrived in Yellowstone around 10:30am today and after entering the park, we stopped at the first pullover, which led to a very short walk to Moose Falls. The kids were more excited about the snow patch on the ground (it was even old and dirty) then the actual waterfall. It was a very pretty waterfall (aren't they all?) and this one was special because it in and around the water were pieces of obsidian which is a natural black glass formed out of volcanic lava. As we drove on, admittedly, I...

Day 317 Monday 12/09/05 Jackson - Yellowstone The weather has turned again so we headed for a late breakfast in Jackson to try and sit it out and see if clears up. We had breakfast and it still hadn't cleared so we decided to head off anyway. We drove into the Grand Teton National Park which is meant to be lovely - we didn't see it because of the rain and mist. We drove on through and into Yellowstone National Park. The rain turned to snow here and as we went uphill into the park we were trea...