Today we left our heated cabin with running water and headed to Lamar Valley for the afternoon. The valley is often called the “American Serengeti” because of its abundance of wild life interacting with one another. We started our drive over there with a 30 minute traffic stop because of some buffalo and then continued our drive to the Northeast corner of the park. We entered the valley and first stopped to see some pronghorn deer along with some buffalo in the rolling hills.
Our drive continued with more buffalo, some excited ladies having seen a “grizzly” (which we were pretty sure was still just a buffalo), and finally a wolf. As I was driving i took a small glance over to my left and spotted a gray colored wolf running through the brush, over the grassy green patch on a hill. I yelled “WOLF!” at Noëlle and pulled over to the side of the road. Noëy sprung into action with her camera and managed to get some photos of it running across the hill. We helped some other people spot it as well before it disappeared to the other side of the greenery.
After leaving the valley we were almost immediately stopped for nothing other than another buffalo crossing the road which cost us another 15 minutes. We finally made it to camp and set up, grabbed some more fire wood. I made a fire and Noey made Mac and Cheese. Noëlle learned how much I love making campfires and stoking it with sticks and moving around the logs with my fire gloves. The fire kept us warm and the s’mores kept us happy and we headed to bed soon after.
