2024-08-21, 09:59 AM
(2024-08-04, 07:45 AM)TacoLand Wrote: Good stuff up yonder. 2.5 weeks to explore an area sounds great, hope you had a great time. Any interesting wildlife encounters?
Yes longer stays is my style these days. Just did the same in the Sierra. Plus I've been going to Bozeman for a decade or so - time to really get to know a place, and work out some cross country routes to get to less used places.
The most fun wildlife encounter was seeing a herd of 100 (we counted) elk on a grassy hillside above tree line. They initially came even closer to us (we were above them, on a ridge) but the one spooked and they trotted off in a long line, with some stragglers. One of the elk was white / pale. Hard to tell at a distance but looking at our zoomed in photos suggests not an albino, just a light coat. They are pretty unusual.