Summer 2009 Post # 2 5-24-09
The Weekend in Yellowstone National Park began at the Grizzly RV Park in West Yellowstone. A beautiful park in a delightful forested setting at the western entrance. Our drive into the higher elevations was clear and sunny with patchy snow on the ground. We were told that the park had 3 feet of snow on the ground last year at this time.
We did the entire south loop on Saturday and again the Moorhead’s were our tour guides as they have been here 7 times! They made sure we stopped at the BEST sights. We got the best pictures. I have been uploading pictures on Facebook because it’s easy. The traffic was tough because of the Memorial holiday but the animals were worth it. We saw buffalo up close and personal plus elk, deer, eagle but no bear.
On day two things went a little weird. We entered the park intending to north to the Mammoth area but about 20 min. into our drive we hit a road block due to a traffic accident. The traffic was stopped in all 4 directions for over 2 hours while they brought in 2 helicopters (the 1st wasn't just right) to pick up 2 motorcycle riders who collided into the rear of a van. A colossal traffic jam in all direction that really messed up our plans, not to mention the cyclists, so we went back to town and went to the museum and shopped a little. About then it started to rain and it has continued pretty much the rest of the day and night. Bummer!
We are about 380 miles short of the Canadian boarder so we will be one more night in the old USA before leaving for a couple of months.
That’s it for now.
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