July 19 and 20

Up close and personal with Bison Lamar Valley

Preparing his new fly rod Slough Creek Lamar Valley

Hundreds of Bison at a safe distance in the Lamar Valley NE area of the Park

We made it!

July 19 and 20

We got up early and left Sundance hoping to get to Yellowstone in one day. Not much messing around today.  A stop for breakfast at Perkins and then a recommended ice cream stop at Dirty Sally’s in TenSleep on Hwy 16. 

We did make it all the way to Yellowstone, the East Gate at least. Then went back down to 3 Mile Camp, you guessed it, 3 miles from Yellowstone because all campgrounds were full.

Got up really early today, 3 a.m., to try and get a first come first serve campsite at Canyon.  Got there at 5 a.m., waited till 7 a.m. and then found out it was NOT one of the first come first serve sites and it was full for the next 5 days. On to the next one, Tower Campsite, got one of the last sites there. 

So far we have seen what I think was an ELK (it was dark thirty and hard to tell), too many deer to count, two gray foxes, several antelope and had an up close (too close maybe 3 feet from Roci with Glen’s window open) encounter with a Bison!  We saw herds of Bison, huge numbers.  

Glen bought a fly rod yesterday in Cody and now he is trying to figure it out, just setting it up. We are up in the Lamar Valley next to Slough Creek which is supposed to be good fishing. 

The plan is to stay in the park for 5/6 days and then head to Kalispell MT. 

No wifi and 3G/LTE service is again spotty, so all these posts will be delayed.