On Yellowstone day #2, we began with breakfast in Canyon Village's cafeteria, and then headed north toward the Mammoth Springs area via Roosevelt. At about 10:00 AM we spotted an audience along the roadside, most armed with tripods and giant zoom lens cameras, looking out onto the hill. There they were - grizzlies, two of them! We parked, grabbed the zoom lens, ran up the hill to where the other photographers, one of which was a park ranger, had positioned themselves. From what I could gather by listening to the park ranger, these two grizzlies were a mating pair that have been seen many times over the past months. What's better than spotting a mating pair of grizzlies in yellowstone? Probably nothing, but it's pretty neat to watch a newborn baby deer and its mother interacting just after birth. Later on the way to Mammoth, we pulled aside to snap photos of a large elk grazing near the road. Just after that, upon arriving in Mammoth I caught a female elk grazing in someone's front yard. We saw grizzlies, newborn deer, and elk all within two hours of each other!
Grizzlies
Deer
Elk
Finally we arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs for a tour its thermal features. The strange minerals and chemicals in the waters of Mammoth change the rock over time to form a beautiful rainbow of colored rock.
Out last event of the day was a five mile back country hike to Beaver Ponds. On the trail Angela identified tons of wildflowers and we even saw beaver dams at the ponds.
That afternoon, on the way back to camp, we spotted more elk alongside the road.
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