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Just Back From Yellowstone. I Saw Wolves!
Posted by gtally • 6/28/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: grand teton national park, wolves, yellowstone national park
Just back from Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks. Sorry I've been out of the loop so long. Anyone ever been to the parks before? They rock!
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Did you take pictures?-
Tons! But I need to set up a flickr account first before I start uploading.
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Well get to it!
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I saw wolves! Twice! And a grizzly twice! The second time for the griz, he was across the river eating fresh kill. And he stood up on his hind legs. Amazing.
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Awesome,
When I was in the Pyrenees, a few days ago, I saw a mother boar and two baby boars. -
Hey, I wouldn't mind seeing that, too. My only regret is that I did not see a moose. I really, really like moose.
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I drank Moose Drool a couple of times in Montana. The stuff is awesome.
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Nope but watched a few programmes on them and they look rather cool! -
I missed you
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Ditto. I missed all my sparring partners and BC peeps.
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You saw wolves?! Now THAT is worth clicking on!-
Yeah! One ran in front of my car at 1 AM in the morning in the Hayden Valley, and the other was standing right by the roadside just south of Norris Geyser Basin. I can't believe lightening struck twice for me. I was very, very lucky.
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Admit it GT! You're the celebrity assassin!
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You caught me. My real trip itinerary was Tampa, L.A. and Tehran.
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Tehran? What celebr... OH! that's messed up!
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No, no, no, not HER. I meant I was fomenting revolution! Bad gnome. Go sit in the corner.
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so you work for the CIA?
Good front... knew you were too smart to be an innkeeper though o_0 -
After this week, I wish I worked for the Park Service. I would like being around the animals and telling stupid people what to do. "Hey Mister. You're ten feet away from that two ton bison that can run three times faster than you, at 35 miles per hour. Why don't you step a little closer, kay?" Seriously, I saw several people nearly get nominated for a Darwin Award dozens of times. All for a picture.
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you shot hours of video of them on the off chance that they would get gored, didn't you (o_0)
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I wouldn't waste the film on them. But a lady from Spain was gored by a bison while I was in the park. It snuck up on her while she was using a pay phone, then charged her and threw her in the air.
www.westyellowstonenews.com/articles/2009/06/26/news/news2.txt
And she wasn't even provoking it. They're quirky, stubborn animals, bison. I think they have a wicked sense of humor. They caused several traffic jams simply by standing in the road. Why? Because they could! -
so they are kinda like panhandlers?
you could make a compilation of people being dumb around wildlife and call it "Chances With Wolves" -
Even better. They're like street toughs. They stand in the middle of the road because they don't give a crap. (Figuratively speaking. Literally speaking, they crap quite a bit).
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I think he just wanted to use the phone. Maybe he had to call his broker.
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OOOWW OOOWW OOWwwwoooooooooooo!
Welcome back. -
Good to be here! Now if we could only teach those wolves and moose and grizzlies how to use the BC discussion board, my life would be complete.
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Um,I don't get it ,but whateverrrrr,how ya been Gmoney?-
Teaching wild animals how to use the Internet... oh never mind. I thought it was funny. Doing O.K., Holly. And you?
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it's all good until they eat the "mouse"
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I ok so u got to see wildlife,woohoo,sounds like fun. I'm gonna do that one day
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Pictures or it didn't happen.-
There will be pictures. But I did not get any decent photos of the wildlife. My point and shoot camera did not have a good enough zoom for that.
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Any pictures will do! I have always wanted to go to Yellowstone
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Yeah. The Park is gorgeous and amazing, but secretly wants to kill visitors in dozens of nasty ways. Go before the place blows up in a super-volcano and kills us all.
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jeeze, you could just drop some stock photography in here to throw off the assassination investigators
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Still waiting
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Obviously he is now feverishly photoshopping his little hotel onto someone else's holiday snaps, shame.
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I am working on my vacation pix now, but I won't start posting them until tomorrow.
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What about lions and tigers and bears?-
Oh My! I did see bears twice in the park and once in Teton National Forest driving home. (See higher in the thread).
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I'm jealous. You go on vacation a lot. Welcome back!-
Hey, ST. Great to hear from you! It was a very cool week.
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I was wondering where you'd gotten to. Welcome back!!
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Well,I don't care if nobody believes you. It sounds like ya had a good time
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I still don't believe him
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And ur point would be
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I don't have one...
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That's what I thought...still love ya tho my little monkey man
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Well, ya know what? When all of this HOLLYtheHOUSEWIFE mess is over,and I have accomplished getting the american public their bailout,and have started a non-profit for people's homes in foreclosure. I told my girls that we are gonna move to hawii and I'm gonna let kendall throw my phone in the ocean and jayleigh is gonna throw my computer in the ocean.
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I would LOVE to visit Yellowstone! I bet it was amazing.
But I have an unfortunate phobia that if I visit, the volcano underneath the park would choose that time to blow up. -
Well,that would be my luck to. If its our time 2 go it would definately be a hell of a way 2 go.
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I know, right?!
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They are beautiful parks! I remember when I went to Wyoming we watched a car get destroyed by the buffalo in the buffalo crossing. The sign did say high congestion area do not block the buffalo crossing.
There was also a bridge that went over a river (I wish I could remember the river) and this bridge was over 1400 feet high. There was a sign on the bridge that said no jumping or fishing from the bridge LMAO!!! I swear it is true. I figure why put the sign? If you really think you can catch a fish that high (the raging river was as thin as a pencil you were so high up) then more power to ya! And if somebody was planning on jumping that sign is not going to stop them-there are stupid people but I do not believe that anybody is stupid enough to think they would survive that jump. They would have one thought on their mind if they were planning on jumping. It's called natural selection -
My images are uploaded now! Here's the blue steam rising off the Grand Prismatic Spring:
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awesome shot!
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Hey, did you see that I had Moose Drool while in Montana? Ever had it before?
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That shot is squished!
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Oops! My bad!
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I have...I actually have a moose drool post!
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BAM! Slap up a link!
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Have you ever tried Old Faithful Ale out of Jackson?
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alright! who overdosed on chilli?!
Seriously, that pic is rank! prob'ly smells all sulfurous
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I have not...I am assuming it is really good?
I have never even heard of it -
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I reviewed Bitch Creek double ESB from Grand Teton but it looks like the old faithful is just a nice light beer that is not bursting with flavor (intentionally)
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Yeah, it was somewhere between a Pale Ale and a Cerveza style beer. But I thought it had a bitter aftertaste.
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after reading the description I would expect it to have a mildly bitter taste
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Spectacular!!!!!!!!!!! More please. -
Spectacular!!!!!!!!!!! More please.
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Good that you saw them.
I live on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, half way between Yellowstone and Glacier, and have wolves and grizzlies in our yard.
If everyone who comes to Montana and Wyoming need to see wolves and bears, we will have to import more meat for them. I'm not exaggerating.-
Let them eat the tourists.
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Natural selection
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I'm so jealous, but I'm glad to see you back in the fold.-
I am already planning a weekend day drive up to the North Park area in north central Colorado. I never saw a moose in Yellowstone and I was bummed about it. I like moose. But there are about a thousand of them in and around the western part of Rocky Mountain National Park. This is only about two hours from my house. I can do it on one tank of gas. So watch out meeses, here I come!
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lucky son of a gun!
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Come on, ca! You're in the Pacific Northwest. That's moose country! Why not plan a day outing?
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we are going to cour d'alene ID on thursday!
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Go to the Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge
www.fws.gov/kootenai/
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cool! thanks!
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CA, here's another resource page about the Selkirk Loop:
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Sure, now I hate you both! I could see a herd of bison on a tank-of-gas round trip, but otherwise it'd be members of the rodent family and maybe a snake or two. No mountains, very few hills, and, well, a couple of decent fishing spots. (Well, I could go to the zoo...)
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What about birds? Birds are cool. Not everything has to be big shaggy megafauna.
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Birds of prey are, indeed, cool. Blackbirds, sea gulls, and carrion eaters, however, are frightening. (Too much Hitchcock in my youth.)
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we've had a young bull moose in the area (so says the father-in-law) that seems to have wandered over from Turnbull NWR. I'm hoping it doesn't take a liking to our garden
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More pictures!
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Whoa really cool shots
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I read that as "cool shorts" and I was all excited to see GTally's legs. [sigh]
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You are such a perv!
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I was only excited on your behalf, of course.
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A likely story..... my arse.
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I was excited on behalf of your arse?
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My arse! en.wiktionary.org/wiki/my_arse
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Word play! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_play
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Word play..My Arse
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Word! thanks for the offer... maybe another time
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Burned by my own buffoonery.
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hehe.. I couldn't resist
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Cyanobacteria, extremophiles living on the edge of a boiling hot spring and emptying into the Firehole River:
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That looks like a view from space... Apparently, after Tehran, you went to Mars.
(Welcome back... I wondered where you were and missed your friendly looking inn avatar.) -
Thanks, MM.
Here's the travertine pools of the Upper Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs:
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you are a good picture taker
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I points and I clicks. Not much to it.
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If that is the case, your camera is seriously ill
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No doubt about it. It needs professional help.
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Wow. Nice shots. I have always wanted to go there. -
Up close an personal with a bison!
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My hubby would have loved that. Bison are his fave. Would love to see the wolves in the wiled my self though. Glad you had a great time. Hope you have many more. And thanks for all the great pics.
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I seen a fox the other day, walking down Kilburn High Road in London, stalking it's next meal, which was little pussy cat.......... -
I wanna go,
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