Yellowstone day 3

Yellowstone day 3

Please start with day 1. Saturday, day three started at 5:30, chilly 47 degrees. Nothing like a 4:30 A.M 20 yard walk outside to go the bathroom to wake you up. I am sunburned and my face is chapped, but it does not hurt, really. Does that stuff have lanolin in it? Each day tops an untoppable day. On our way from Roosevelt toward Larmar Valley someone spots a bear. We get out just in time to see a Grizzly chase a Black off a kill and up a tree. Merlin Perkins eat your heart out. Also at Speciman Mountain a Bald Eagle soars within fifty yards. I have no pictures of this, as the team shares photos I will post.
Then to the Yellowstone river picnic area trail. Pictures tell the story here. We stopped for a lesson on wildflowers and some teamwork. The trail, the hike, the view, the lessons, the journaling was all wonderful. On the trial we got an up close experience with Pronghorn sheep, Coyote, Osprey, Buffalo skeleton, Ground Squirrel, Badger, Buffalo to name just some. Lunch at the picnic area, and for desert and Bighorn sheep is just across the road.
Later that day we meet four young persons, either in College or just out, working in the summer in Yellowstone on a coyote watch. Following the animals electronically, or visually and recording the data. What a great summer for a young person. It is a great big world out there young people, do not limit yourself. After supper in Cooke City, wildlife observation in Lamar. I have few of the birds we have seen, and other animals, too many to list.
One thing I forget yesterday, a few of use were able to spot a grizzly find and kill a baby Pronghorn. There were other animal around almost oblivious to the killing. It is just part of the life in the wild. Food web, food chain it is all around us.
As the stress of the school year falls off of me, this place begins to grab a hold of you. Peaceful, powerful, overwhelming, majectic, soothing. It becomes easier to see the real priorities in life. What are great place, what a great group of people, what an awesome leadership. My only regret, my face looks like I have leprosy.