adventures
For our first evening in Yellowstone, we walked through Mammoth Hot Springs and looked at the thermophiles, heat-loving bacteria and organisms that create (contribute to?) colorful mineral deposits like these.
Each year there's a national butterfly 'census' to see how many species of butterfly can be caught in one day. We helped out.
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Our leader, Greg, made us wake up super early to go stare through scopes (he's holding one) at wolves and bears miles distant.
Photo courtesy of Cindy D.
I think it rained/thundered on us nearly every day in Yellowstone.
For one dayhike, we drove a ways into Wyoming, into the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness and hiked through a bunch of scree-fields.
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We were pleasantly surprised our last day in Yellowstone to see this wolf gnawing on the elk carcass, very close to where we could stand.
Photo courtesy of Cindy D.
