We made several stops along the way to take it all in and took plenty of pictures to share the beauty with you!
Took a short hike up to a rocky area. Picked some wildflowers. Took some pictures of Bryan trying to look taller than the mountains. Then we kissed while falling down the mountain.
The stopping point between the Beartooth range and Yellowstone is Cooke City, which is a cute little REALLY old town. We stopped in the general store, which has been operating since 1886, several years before the Beartooths were even considered passable.
-do you see the short spiky peak? that is the 'beartooth' for which the range is named!
We enjoyed our lunch at a picnic table in the Cooke City area – our quick and easy lunch of choice on this trip has been a hunk of fresh bread, salami, and cheese.
Enjoyed Yellowstone and actually saw some wildlife up close. We were lucky we didn’t get gored by this buffalo – apparently he prefers traveling by pavement rather than by prairie.
This bear was walking around, and was actually fairly active while we watched it. It stood up to pull apart an old log, probably looking for bugs to eat.
And these elk were just chilling in the grass.
There were at least a dozen elk just standing around the visitors center in Gardner, on our way out of the park.
We drove through Paradise Valley (aptly named) arrived at Bozeman, MT in the evening and are excited to be here. This is a fun city with lots to do and we plan to meet up with a couple different friends, and then the two of us will head out from here to do some backpacking in the next day or so.
3 comments:
Wow - is that a beautiful area! I haven't been to Yellowstone for 35 years - maybe next year.
You know, it's not very fair that you got to see a bear and we didn't. Clearly we need to do our cross country trip all over again.
Wonderful pictures! I like the blog. It's neat to be on the otherside of it. :)
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