So, where were we? It’s been a while since we’ve posted, mainly because we’ve been camping for most of the last week and that makes a good internet connection hard to find. After waking up in Helena to snow flurries, we decided that our plan to spend a few nights camping in Yellowstone might have to be rearranged. We looked up the weather, and it showed lows in the 20s. Yikes! Didn’t seem like that was going to work best with our camping gear.
What the??? Isn't this June??
After a little back and forth we decided to plow ahead to Yellowstone and try to find higher ground to camp on. We passed through a few good Montana towns before we reached Ennis, about a half hour from the entrance. A warm bed beckoned at the Riverside Motel and we spent the evening relaxing in the Bronco-filled old-tyme town.
Chris and the cowboy
The next morning we wrenched our way out of the warm bed and headed towards Yellowstone National Park. We had pretty high expectations about Yellowstone and as we drove in the west entrance we were greeted by an elk and winding fly-fishing streams that made for great auto birdwatching (we saw several osprey, one that had just caught a fish). But somehow after spending a few days in Glacier it just didn’t seem particularly impressive. We spent most of the day car-gazing at the scenery. The geysers were interesting but the rotten egg smell kept us from inspecting too many of them up-close. The highlight was the final stretch of drive before we left the park, where the buffalo roamed freely through the green river basin.
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We headed out of Yellowstone looking for birds and lower ground for warmer camping. We ended up about an hour out of the park at Buffalo Bill State Park and looking forward to the next stretch of road. Although the cold weather had changed our plans, we were very happy that it had shortened our time in Yellowstone, and not in Glacier.
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