Much warmer today as we returned to the Lamar Valley area of the park. Our first excitement of the day came when a deer jumped on the road in front of us and I narrowly missed hitting it. Then we saw why he jumped if front of us, a bear was near by. Unfortunately, my dash cam had just fallen off the window so I did not get any video of the incident. We did see a coyote on the road.
We had been told we should see the Bear Tooth Highway just east of the park so we drove there first and stopped in a small town called Cooke City. An old mining town, it is mostly restaurants and hotels now. As we were returning to the park Nancy spotted some moose, the first we have seen this visit.
After entering the park we saw some mountain goats and a moose cow and calf.
We had noticed people looking at a large nest on the mountainside so we stopped to check it out and saw an osprey.
The next thing we saw was a black bear and three cubs.
We had given up on seeing a grizzly this afternoon when we came upon a traffic jam and a man told us a grizzly had just gone behind some trees. We decided to wait awhile and sure enough it came into view for a few seconds.
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