wildlife and beauty abound in this episode
i am leaving utah for now and heading to wyoming we're heading to yellowstone national park
i've made it to idaho and then next is montana i picked up a friend along the way
gonna go find a great camp and make some dinner tonight
it's about four o'clock in the afternoon we're up in the trees it's just beautiful
one of my fondest memories as a child is road trips with my grandparents
and this trip sparked that same excitement
we're set up at camp which is uh just outside of the west entrance and i will show that to
you later but we decided to go ahead and take a ride into the park because we still have a
couple hours of daylight and uh yeah i've never come in this side and it is beautiful
we exited the park boundary to explore some other beautiful areas just outside the park
so
we're having a little chipotle kale salad and broths for dinner cooked on the fire
good morning it's another beautiful day and we're back in the park we're gonna enjoy the weather
today the sunny weather because it's about to change rain and snow is expected over the next
few days yellowstone park is the largest and most famous megafauna location in the contiguous united
states grizzly bears wolves and free-ranging herds of bison and elk live in this park
and springtime brings lots of new life definitely a few old guys hanging around as well
yellowstone lake is one of the largest high elevation lakes in north america
and is centered over the yellowstone caldera the largest super volcano on the continent
we're stopping for a little lunch here on the tailgate at
yellowstone lake it's still frozen over still somewhat winter here in yellowstone
today is a day of just cruising around the park looking for wildlife and seeing some
of the sights we saw the grand canyon of yellowstone which is absolutely beautiful
the waterfalls were just raging yellowstone lake is frozen over still
we've seen bison but so far no grizzly we're hoping to see grizzly bear
back here at camp after an awesome day in the park i don't think i've mentioned it
so far in this video but the reason that i'm here in yellowstone is i will be doing
a two night three day backpacking trip it was originally supposed to be a three-night four-day
backpacking trip with a completely different route however because of the weather we shorten the trip
uh there are going to be i think seven of us total so one of the things that we needed to
do today was get a back country permit so it's a little tough filming because we've
got people showing up some other people just showed up here to camp getting dinner going
we're making some burgers tonight some salad and corn on the cob on the cooked on the fire so it
should be a really good meal and then tomorrow morning we're gonna get our bags packed up our
backpacks and head out on the trip that will be a separate video and then i'll probably pick up with
you guys again in a couple of days when we're done with the backpacking trips but i hope you enjoyed
checking out the park with me today i saw a lot of wildlife bison uh pronghorn elk
deer a black bear which i did not get on camera joey got that on camera it had a little cub with
it as well so it was really cute anyhow i'm going to go ahead and keep getting dinner
prepared and maybe check with you later tonight but if not i'll check in with you after the trip
it was memorial day and we woke up to a very winter-like morning at the end of may
good morning from a wintry snowy wonderland here in west yellowstone in montana i'm
picking up with you all a few days later we did go on a backpacking trip which you will
see in a separate video it snowed on us on our backpacking trip and it is snowing now
it looks like a winter wonderland outside it's absolutely beautiful i'm gonna go ahead and pick
up where i left off now i'm not sure what the plan is for today we may go into west yellowstone or
into yellowstone and check it out in its snowy state but we shall see i'll keep you posted
in the meantime it's been another gear explosion in here we haven't put any of our backpacking
items away or anything like that so might clean up a little bit and see what the day has in store
well we decided to drive back into the park and uh see the snow on the mountains looks
like a whole different place now each time you drive in here it's a different story
the streams rivers and waterfalls were moving with force after the storms
so
bison were once almost hunted to extinction in our history
in the u.s i'm grateful to see them roaming free and flourishing here
with its log and limb lobby and a massive stone fireplace the inn is an example of the golden
age of rustic resort architecture a style which is also known as national park service rustic
i love yellowstone it is one of the last truly wild spaces in the west
the animals are free to roam like they once were i hope that never changes
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