Grizzly Bear Over There

Well, I added the Grizzly Bear to my list yesterday.  These are both edited and enlarged photos.  I did not get anywhere this close to a Grizzly.  I'm really not that dumb.  He was impressively large and he would absolutely win in a confrontation.  Score: Grizzly 1 - Ranger 0.

We saw a flock of American White Pelicans.  About a dozen were feeding along a spit in Yellowstone Lake.  Unfortunately, they were to far away to photograph until I learn how to walk on water. Not soon.

In the next few days we are going to the Lamar Valley in the Northeast corner of Yellowstone to look for Big Horn Sheep. 

Grizzly Bear out for a walk in the woods.

He was walking up a log.

Yellowstone Lake is big.  When you look out over the lake it is more like Puget Sound than a lake.   When the wind blows it has waves and white-caps that seem too big for a lake. There are islands and rugged shores that make it look like home.

The lake is the largest high altitude lake in the USA.  It has 141 miles of shoreline, it is 20 mile long and 14 miles wide. We are camped at the Northern tip of the lake where Yellowstone River flows into the lake.

Yellowstone Lake and a dead tree.

Well that was a dead tree shot so we are at the end of another blog. 

As I sit here writing at 4:15pm, we are having a sleet storm. The ice pellets collect in center of the fir branches turning them white.  It is predicted to be 29 degrees tonight.  Maybe snow?  It would be pretty and we're here till the 22nd so that would be interesting to see.  It will warm up the next three days and be sunny. 

Looking out the window there are now snow flakes coming down.  Think I'll go make a snowman if it sticks.

OK it 4:40pm as I write.  We are hunkered down in a nice warm motorhome and it's really starting to snow hard. Here's a picture out the door.

How much snow through the night???

It was sunny and 80 degrees yesterday, in Cody, WY.  Huh.  It's 4:55pm and it's turning white.  Cool.

Yep, it's real snow.

It's 5:30pm and it's here for real.....let it snow.  Maybe we are spending our Winter in Yellowstone and not Mazatlan.

Lazy Russ & Terri in warmer times.