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Cuck and Margie Anderson
This brought back many wonderful memories of our trips out west with Bobby and Artie
jbyram
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies ♪ ♫ ☺ PS: Was that an Alabama state tag on the hut?
Drozd
I hope it wasn´t hippie dancer that jumped off the waterfall
Catreena
amazing photos!!! i hope to one day take a trip like that!!!
Mom
What phenominal photos! Thanks for sending them---I think I want to spend my summer there too. Can't wait to hear more about the trip.
Katie Warren
Loved the pics. Looked like you guys had a blast. I am jealous, because we didn't see a bear or a moose while we were there and you saw a ton of bears!! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Mark and Karin
Awesome pictures!!! Now we know why you didn't want to leave, just breathtaking shots!!
Josie & Gus
I liked the Moose!-- Gus.
It was funny when you thought the big beaver was a bear!-- Josie
It was funny when you thought the big owl was a bobcat.--Gus
Did you wait a long time for the bear to move off the tree? It was funny. -- Josie
We liked the pictures! Those pictures were great!
Mom & Dad
Fantastic photos of a fantastic trip! We are waiting to hear all about it.
Sue Kort
This was a great slide show Dave & Kim. Don and I took a trip similar to this in the 80's and it was fun to relive it through your trip. We should probably take our Dave someday!
Amber
Beautiful! LMAO through all of the captions. I am so glad Dave was able to relieve himself so we could enjoy all of that beautiful scenery! Thanks for sharing!
Amber
BEAUTIFUL! LMAO at the captions! Thanks for sharing, and I am really glad Dave was able to relieve himself so we could enjoy such scenery! Thanks!
Jeff
What an amazing trip this must of been-- I count the Midwest lucky to get you back!
Dawn Kleinfeldt
AWESOME photos!! Looks like you two had a wonderful time! Thanks for sharing !
Jamie Briggs
Beautiful pictures. The whole bear thing makes me think twice about going there with children though - maybe in a few years.
davekunkle
Here are some photos of our trip. Be warned, there are many of them. Feel free to skip around. To make it more pleasant, background music is provided by a Jeffrey Foucault show.
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Next three are animal photos of questionable quality.
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Result of my watering (I really had to go).
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Celebrating the result.
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Fire areas (there was a big one in 1988) and elk (there were big ones in 2009)
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Watering the flora.
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These next three photos are from Trout Lake...
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...where there's a really great lake...
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...with trout, that are getting ready to spawn
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Kim throwing down some mad rhymes in the backcountry.
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HUUUUGGEE bear claws ripped the tree. I wanted to see the bear that did this, Kim did not want to see the bear.
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Who needs to buy a camper when you can just build your own. Check out the window unit a/c.
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Bison traffic jam.
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This was the first bear we saw. It was running fast so the photo didn't turn out great. I wasn't satisfied...I wanted more bears!
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This is not a bear, but an antelope. They are everywhere in Yellowstone, but for some reason this is the only photo we took of one.
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Not a bear.
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Again, not a bear.
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Nope, no bear (although this little guy attacked and killed a big trout right in front of us. We tried to get it on video, but didn't have any luck).
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Getting ready to devour a trout.
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No bear.
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Young, non-bear thing.
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Nope. Still no bear.
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Mutant, attached at the head bison (or just bison play fighting). Either way, not bears.
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There's got to be bears out there somewhere...right?
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BEAR!!!!!!!!! Looking right at me!
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Geothermal area bears don't live in.
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Two elk being stalked by a grizzly (really, I'm not kidding). We never did get to see the grizz, but it was there.
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Huge elk!
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BEAR! AGAIN! This time is was a cinnamon bear...see next photo...
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...it's a black bear, but has a brown body and black head and legs. Very cool.
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This is a bear cub hanging from a tree branch. We waited for about 15 minutes for it to come down and catch up to its mother (she's off screen to the left), but it never did.
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Old Faithful was five minutes early.
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Okay, now here's the cool ones: Kim and I were in the backcountry when we came across a grizzly! There's a valley between us, with a good sized river, but the bear saw us and we saw it.
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Grizzly again.
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If you wanted to know how to get to Mammoth, there you go.
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Seems like a Yellowstone postcard.
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This does too (bison traffic jam). They stop in the middle of the road and don't move. Then tourists come close to them to take photos. Bad idea. Bison charge people.
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Bear, really close to the road (so close, in fact, the shadow's the shadow of our car.
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I drove ahead a bit.
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Bad photo of a coyote, but we saw many. Also wolves, although we didn't get a good photo of one of those either.
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On our last day we saw a moose.
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This is the drive home, via the Beartooth Highway. Insane road!
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I struck this goofy pose, waiting for Kim to take the photo. Kim did, but didn't tell me. Having me stay in this pose for a good 45 seconds. People laughed at me.
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Thanks for watching!
Kim and Dave
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First stop, South Dakota, where I (Dave) thought I saw a bear swimming (I'm bear crazy)
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It was just a large beaver.
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I did not mistake this as a bear, although at first I thought it was a bobcat. It's an owl.
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The Badlands...
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Interior, South Dakota, has a cool sign.
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Where Kim spent the first night.
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Nothing says roughing it like wi-fi and Mt. Dew. Notice the concentration (tongue).
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Cody, Montana has a nightly rodeo. If you find yourself there, go to it.
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On the drive from Cody to Yellowstone via Chief Joseph Highway.
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Kim with a walking stick and in support of the Tennessee Smokies, AA affiliate of the Chicago Cubs.
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This is the view from the front porch of the cabin we stayed in.
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Kim reminded me that I could not molest the animals.
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Newest hat fashion--giant elk skull cap.
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Flowers that are wild.
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Waterfall--the bottom of the waterfall trail was close because some guy leaped off it the day before. They still haven't found his body.
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Big sky country.
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Geothermal pools around Yellowstone...
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Beautiful roads in Yellowstone...
