On the Road with Nacho: Checking In from Yellowstone

It's been a while since we have been able to post. During our days at Mack's Inn RV at Island Park, ID and Yellowstone KOA at outside of the town of West Yellowstone we had virtually no internet connection and barely any cell phone connection.

While at Mack's Inn, Dave spent time fishing along Henry's Fork of the Snake River in Harriman State Park; it was beautiful, but the fish were stubborn and no one was catching anything or even any bites.

We have now moved into Grizzly RV Park in West Yellowstone and Dave has been fishing inside the park. Of course, it is beautiful there also and the fishing has been better. He has been practicing catch and release, but with the rule changes, I've told him he needs to bring a few back to the trailer for a trout supper. He fishes in the morning and then in the early afternoon he returns and we head into the park for some sightseeing. After a couple days of extremely limited wildlife viewing we decided yesterday to drive the upper loop. When we started out we were unsure if we would make it to Lamar Valley, but we were pleasantly surprised and it was open. That was actually great because we finally found a small herd of Bison which we have been attempting to find for 3 days. There were few scattered here and there, but we finally found a herd in Lamar Valley. I love watching the Bison and there are babies everywhere which makes it more fun. We also had our first glimpse of a Grizzly as we were heading from Lamar Valley to Mammoth. Yeah!!!! A few more elk were present also. Our favorite viewing point for Elk watching has been strangely empty of elk, so it was fun to see a few along our route yesterday.

Below are some pictures of the scenery and wildlife from the past few days.

Mountain Goats along river outside West Yellowstone

Along Firehole River

Absaroka Mountains behind Lake Yellowstone

Ambling along

View between Canyon and Tower.

The road was quite steep and curvy; I wouldn't want to drive an RV along this section. A large portion of the road is also torn up and under construction.