Lamar Valley

Welcome to Woodside America -- the honeymoon adventures of Nick and Celeste!

Alaska is truly for me, the "last frontier." Having traveled across the contienet on different routes 5 times via motorcycle, I have visited all of the lower 48 U.S. States and the Eastern Canadian Provinces. This travel adventure will be enhanced by a ...

... to be very nice at mid-afternoon. 3. Calcite Springs : http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/ntower.htm 4. Lamar Valley: http://www.yellowstoneparknet.com/tower_roosevelt/lamar_valley.php 5. Petrified Tree ...

... hopes of catching a glimpse of some of the wildlife said to be roaming the early morning forests and grasslands of Yellowstone's famous Lamar Valley. We quickly packed up our tent for what we thought was the last time in Yellowstone and headed off to the ...

... 45 AM wake up 7:15 AM breakfast 8:45 AM meet at bus with day's gear (pack, water, appropriate clothing) Depart for Lamar Valley Wildlife viewing, history/geology overview Lunch at the Lamar Buffalo Ranch Interpretive Snowshoe/Hike 3:30 PM Return to ...

... there was one right across the river from us.  At the museum we overheard some people talking about a grizzly sighting in the Lamar Valley so we headed North again to Mammoth and stopped at the Sheepeater cliffs were we (Dom, Dani and I) spent a ...

... the only park road open in the winter other than the one to the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.  This road passes through the Lamar Valley, known to attract wildlife in the winter and although we will be visiting it with our program, I wanted some extra ...

Upper loop Mammoth, Norris, Lamar valley ...

... cleaned up and showered, started packing etc. We are having our farewell dinner tonight and then tomorrow we are thinking of heading to Lamar Valley before leaving. So overall today we saw 9 wolves and 1 Grizzly bear and a black bear. Which for the trip ...

... to pick up some sandwiches and go for a hike in the more 'wildlife’ area of the park, Roosevelt-Tower and Lamar Valley.  That was probably the beginning of the trouble.  As we were zooming up towards Mammoth, we encountered a particularly ...

... to the Lamar valley to see what we could see. Along the way we stopped to watch a black bear foraging and in the Lamar valley we stopped at a nice picnic area along the river for dinner. We had just started boiling our water when someone spotted a ...

... moment, but that's nature for you. Saw a herd of Elk parading around outside the tourist info centre, showoffs! Drove to the Lamar valley, we saw bison herds and deer. On way back we saw some people training binoculars in a particular direction, always ...

... !). I don't know if I will have internet service in Yellowstone. Maybe at Lake Lodge? We start off at Roosevelt Lodge near Lamar Valley. I don't think I will have it there...it's pretty rustic. Lamar Valley is where the wolves and bears are supposed to ...

... Well, it turned out that the park service had closed almost every road in the park (all except the northern roads by Mammoth and Lamar Valley were closed). We had no other choice but to sit in the warm lobby with everyone else waiting to get word that the ...