we are in rocky mountain national park and it is elk bugling season
we're so excited to be here it is the middle of september
rut starts from august and goes into october so we are right in the middle
we just got into the park the sun is just rising and we've already seen a huge
herd of elf we heard the call it was beautiful so follow along and let's go find some elk bugling
well our vlog turned from elk to moose very fast those bull moves were enormous
everything's large right now the elk are big the moose are big it's just
what a beautiful time to be in rocky mountain national park
all right we got another big old elk oh wait it's over here
guys we're sitting here watching this elf laying down and this entire forest area over here
it's non-stop bugling i'm not even kidding like we're listening to them bugle like crazy
back here because these signs are everywhere rut rut is taking place right now you guys
but the elk are bugling non-stop down here i can't there it is oh my god
i can hear them we can hear them they're going crazy like
calls are coming from everywhere but we just we can't see them
this is beautiful so if you're in rocky mountain national park and you're looking to see elk
during elk bugling season to hear the calls you have to be in like the low
meadow areas of the park like this we're by beaver meadows right now we're gonna do like a little
loop walk here um and see if we see anywhere else because we just had those two does
and we saw the uh bull elk way up in the distance and like i said we're hearing them
everywhere they're just like in the woods calling it's crazy this is amazing this is
an experience for us we've never heard and seen this type of activity before
yesterday we went and hiked our very first 14er here in colorado we hiked to the top of
mount Bierstadt and that's located off of guanella pass in colorado and the fall
colors are going on like crazy in some of the areas it was beautiful thus far
um like i said it's september 18th lower elevation and we haven't seen a mushroom
color yet but we're going to be driving up to the alpine center and all over so hopefully
we see some fall colors because it's still pretty green in the park lots of tracks here in the sand
here yeah i don't know pretty small i don't know i'm gonna be very cautious as we
enter and remember to always respect wildlife especially during this rut season you guys
people can get killed it's not a zoo there's no messing around with wildlife okay
so if you stumble across wildlife give it plenty of space especially right now give it
even double the space during rot season the herd of out there back in that poor exterior i hear
the bull he keeps calling but i don't see him i see his harem so we are staying far away from that
i got my big zoom lens today so um that's what you want to use when you're doing wildlife obviously
you don't walk up to them i think they're hiding from the mail or something i don't know it's funny
but we know he's around we can hear them calling they're just trying to get a break
miss feisty we got deer fighting we saw the elk going this morning
is that moose they weren't fighting first patch of fall color just peeking through up here
all right so we drove all the way across trail ridge road
and now we're over on the grand lake entrance area it's about 11 o'clock in the morning now
and the one thing about elk bugling is it's either really early in the morning or it's
pretty late at night i don't know how much more we're gonna actually hear today they're
probably not gonna be as active as they were early this morning so now we're just
exploring rocky mountain national park fall feeling day and so we're just enjoying it
everything is so golden and ball looking and it's so pretty here in the fall
oh my gosh it is lunch time this is our spot we've ate here before we just love it down here there's
a little pond down there there's some ducks down there mountain views quiet it's gorgeous
check it out you guys huge herd of elk right here and we are high this is alpine so during
rat most of the time elk moved down into lower altitudes so this is really crazy seeing this
enormous herd up here i mean it doesn't surprise me but i was just didn't expect
to see this today because i figured they were all down in the valleys so this is wild to see
one last stop before we call this a wrap
estes park you want to see elk every time we come to outside there's elk everywhere we
are at esta sacra now okay talk about down here by the lake check these beauties out
that is a wrap on our very first elk bugling session here in beautiful rocky mountain national
park and a little bit of estes park because it's right there it was so so amazing to hear
those elk calls this morning there's like nothing like it's kind of like a loon call
you know but it's an elk it's totally different i just they're so pretty
so thank you guys so much for watching i hope if you're here in rocky mountain this fall you
get to see some elk and you hear the calls i'm sure you'll see l because they're always out but
hear them call that's totally different it's pretty cool to experience this be sure to give
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