Snow snow lot's of snow

Yellowstone weather up-date

It's just beautiful

Winter is still hanging around.  The whole park is under  blizzard  conditions.  The East entrance is closed due to several avalanches.  It’s been closed for weeks.  Most of the  roads in the south part of the park are also closed due to deep snow. You can not get from the Old Faithful area to Jackson.  Jackson is also snowed in. From Mammoth were I’m working going east they have had a rock slide so that part of Yellowstone is also closed.  In the Grant area 4 of the employee’s cabins have collapsed and 26 guest rooms have had their walls pushed in by the snow  We have been very busy in reservations with all the cancellations. 

This was taken at Canyon Village

 We are the only part of the park without  snow.  We have green grass and flowers.  The bison are having their babies-the elk will in the next two weeks.  We are seeing lots of bears.

Snow at Canyon Village







Friday we ran up to Bozeman to run some  errands and than stopped for lunch at Ted Turner’s Montana Grill.
Great food.

It snowed all night at Mammoth but was gone when we got back from Bozeman.  We heard that they had a big storm at Canyon so we decided to take a ride down to check it out.  It snowed on us the whole way down.   You just wouldn’t believe all the snow still in the park. Canyon Village is going to open next week.  I don’t know how. 
 
Saw a nice grizzly on the way down.

Grizzly

Looking for lunch

Can't find anything good to eat

Beautiful spring weather

Canyon Village Visitor's Center

Nancy - Rey - Nancy

Spring time in Yellowstone

We were going to go on a road trip for our days off but the weather man said snow/snow /snow.
Instead we took a ride thru the park on the roads they just opened.  We went to Tower Falls and than on to Lamar Valley.
Had a nice lunch in Cooke City which is a few miles north of the north/east entrance. On the way home it snowed. It was still snowing when we went to supper.

Lot's of snow just pass Golden Gate

Tower Falls

 

Lot's of water in the rivers this year

It feels so good

Bull Elk

First moose we have seen at Yellowstone

Walkway at Grant Village

Trip to Grant Village


On our days off this week we decided to take a trip to Grant Village and the rest of the park.  The roads had not been open on the east side of Yellowstone until this week.  Everyone had been telling us how much snow there was down in the Grant Village part of the park.  We could not believe it.  Up in Mammoth the snow is all gone and the grass is green.  In Grant Village which is in the southern part of the park there is still lot of snow.


 At Fishing Bridge the Garage has caved in from the snow on the roof.


On the drive home we saw our first grizzly bear.  He was nice enough to stand there and let us take pictures.

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Lots of snow

Waterfalls on the way to Grant

View from Signal Mountain Lodge Our lunch stop

Bison on the road to Mammoth

Garage at Fishing Bridge

Isn't he beautiful

New Mom

Grizzly on the road to Mammoth

Lamar Valley

This is what we saw on our drive to Lamar the other night.

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                                 Our first black bear up                                       close and personnel

Lunch time-thanks mom

DAYS OFF

This week instead of going on a road trip we went to Bozeman to do some shopping.  We had to be back to mammoth in time for the
“smack down” this is when the waiters and kitchen staff get to
practice on the employee. They were opening the next day. We had a great meal and lots of fun.

Friday morning we hike at lava Creek.  The weather was perfect.

In the afternoon we went back to Bozeman to see Water for Elephants.  Great movie.

LAVA CREEK

VIEWS FROM THE TRAIL

UNDINE  FALLS

HOT SPRINGS TERRACES

      ELK RESTING IN THE SUN SHINE

Saturday we didn’t have to go to work until 10 so we headed out to Undine falls to take pictures of birds

                               
                             American Dipper

FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING

Main Street-Gardiner Mt.

When we were in Gardiner the other morning we saw these gals on their way to work.. They did not have a care in the world and were in no hurry. They were walking right down the main street.








The girls on the way to work

Philipsburg, Mt.

On our days off this week we headed to a small town call Philipsburg. It was a neat old mining town. To get there we took hwy #90 west and pick up route #1 which is the Pintler Scenic Highway thru Anaconda. It was a beautiful ride thru the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness. We went by Georgetown Lake which is an area for great for fishing.

Philipsburg is an enchanting 19th century mining town boasting many of Montana’s oldest structures and friendliest people. This is an area were they mined for sapphires.

The town is known for having the Sweet Palace the world’s greatest candy store. It has over 1000 selections. We had to buy some chocolates for the trip home.



Views along the Pintler Scenic Highway











We had supper here


Downtown Philipsburg.


Our Hotel

Herding the Bison back to Yellowstone

Every so often the park rangers go down to Gardiner and round-up the bison that have left the park. We were lucky enought on our way to town the other day to see them bring them back to the park.