In all the visit’s we’ve made over the years to Yellowstone National Park, we’ve always seen plenty of wildlife. Though we’ve seen large mammals in all parts of the park, by far, we’ve seen the most along the eastern section of the Grand Loop Road.
Large numbers of buffalo can be seen from – and, often, on – the road in Hayden Valley, though we’ve seen them all along the route from Yellowstone Lake to where the road starts to climb towards Dunraven Pass. Bears and wolves can sometimes be seen in the same area, though we’ve yet to see a wolf and it’s been a long time since we’ve seen a bear there. We have seen quite a few of the wolves’ younger cousins, the coyotes. From Dunraven Pass past Tower Falls, we’ve seen bighorn sheep a number of times.
There is a bit of thermal activity along this route. The lower potion lies within the bounds of the caldera of the Yellowstone super-volcano.
The lower part of the route follows the Yellowstone River, parting from it at Canyon Village and then returning to it near Tower Falls. At Canyon, the river tumbles over two falls, the Lower Falls the more spectacular of the two, as it thunders into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
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Yellowstone References and Resources:
Yellowstone is one of the most popular destinations in the U.S. and there are a lot of available resources, including books and DVDs
- National Park Service
- Wikipedia
- UNESCO World Heritage Site
- National Geographic
- New York Times Travel Guide
- Wikitravel
- Gorp
- PBS
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Hi Mike,
I’m enjoying the fact that you’re adding videos to your site. I’ve always loved your photos, and now I can enjoy your videos too. I’ll have to show this to my daughter when she gets out of school. She loves most things related to nature (just like her mom).
Opal recently posted..Inspired by nature; Glittering gems
Hi Opal,
I just stumbled on to being able to do the videos. After putting a couple together during the winter, I saw the videos as a way to share more of my photos. I’m rather happy with the way they turned out. My intent is for them to be from 2.5 to not much more than 5 minutes in length, depending on the content, the photos available, and what music I can find for background.
When I finish with the 2007 trip, my next videos will be from the trip we are currently on. We’re currently in southwest New Mexico about 70 miles north of the border with Mexico. We’ve been gone from home 5 weeks and will be back home in about a week.
I remember that you had been somewhat interested in the civil war blog I had been doing. I’ve got a new one that I started about a year ago. Instead of following a few diarists, I have a large number of peoples’ diary entries and letters than I am publishing. I am following the sesquicentennial of the civil war. Today for instance, I published letters and diary entries from October 10, 1861 — 150 years ago today.
I found your other site (I Googled and found the web address).
I remember as a child (think I was in third or fourth grade) as a reward for making honor roll, the teacher gave me a large selection of Civil war books. It was from his private collection. While some students told me that wasn’t a ‘prize’, I was thrilled to receive it. I still have those books. I believe that teacher gave me those books because he knew I’d read anything I could get my hands on, so it was great he gave me something informative.
I haven’t thought about that gift in years.
Opal recently posted..Inspired by nature; Glittering gems
Oops…. I meant to include the web address. We had to get out and take care of laundry — 9 days accumulation of dirty clothes for two people — and Karen was ready to go get it done as I was finishing up the reply.
So far as books being a prize, I think I always valued books above most other things. I still have a set of classics my uncle gave me when I was still a preteen!
Just to make sure you got the right website, it’s http://dotcw.com . I have a couple of others that are “abandoned in place” as references and sources for future use.
Hi Mike,
Yes that’s the one I found, since you’d mentioned there were a few you’d abandoned; I checked the date.
Opal recently posted..Inspired by nature; Glittering gems
Hi Mike .. great video-pics of this part of the Park .. it is a beautiful place .. and entices me to visit. Love that you managed to put these together ‘so easily’ .. and the music is particularly great .. I think I should send you a dongle and you can download some for me and send it back .. I’m so unmusical .. but so be it!
I thought I’d RRSd your CW blog .. but perhaps not .. I’ll have to have another look .. Cheers for now – just off to Oxford – taking a cousin of my mother’s from Vancouver Island .. there to give lectures on her aunt, a Cornish woman Emily Hobhouse .. an opponent of the concentration camps in the Boer War and Germany in WWI …. back in 5 days .. not 5 weeks!
Cheers enjoy the rest of the trip and clean laundry!! Hilary
Hi Hillary.
Thanks!
I had never heard of the concentration camps for women in children during the Second Boer War. I looked up Emily Hobhouse in Wikipedia. How appalling! In today’s world those camps would be considered extreme human rights violations. Seems like Emily Hobhouse and her works would make for a great inspirational story blog post.
Hi Mike .. Jenny has all her aunt’s papers .. and she’s written a book, which is out of print, not sure exactly what she’s doing about it – I think printing it in Germany .. she asked me to look into Print on Demand here .. which I did .. and quite a lot else .. then she went off at a tangent .. difficult as she lives in Canada .. and it’s her book and project etc ..
Really has nothing to do with me .. but whether Jenny will be able to keep coming over I’m not sure – she’s in her 80s .. hence my help .. she’s researching at the moment!!!!! She’s got lots of information …
Emily wrote a book in 1902 or 4 … and Jenny’s was in 1994 … I’d like to get them both up again .. Emily’s onto Project Gutenberg .. and Jenny’s into print .. but I have to watch my step – it’s her family .. Emily is only related tenuously by marriage …
The info in Wiki needs updating too .. and I’ve got that here (Jenny’s updates to do) .. will have to clarify a few things this weekend ..
I have to balance interest and Jenny’s knowledge – not always easy!! I’ve her other lecture notes, but I’m ashamed to say I haven’t read her book .. it is 702 pages!!! However I’m getting more interested – as I give myself a belated education!
Cheers for now .. Hilary