Leave for Yellowstone today. Blog about trip now included

Gonna be nice and cool up there.

Long drive but we are taking our time, 3 days to get up there 4 days at Yellowstone/Tetons and 3 days back

The elk that hang out at the lodge likes to be scratched behind their ears.

Yellowstone and Yosemite on my bucket list. Have a good one Ratz!

you are really lucky

Fun times, take plenty of pics

One of my favorite places to visit in the US. It's just a spectacular place. Weather should be fantastic. The great thing about it is anyone can afford to go there. Park fees are low. You can travel in your own vehicle. You can also do some high end stuff if you like.

I have traveled to a lot of great places. Most of the time I wouldnt go back. However Yellowstone and the Tetons are on my would go back list. The others are on that list are Africa, and Brooks Falls Alaska.

Next trip is to Brazil for Peacock Bass in September then next year Scotland which is my wife's pick.

Bucket list is Austrailia, New Zealand, Belize, Italy. Also would like to make the 6 US states that I have not been in.

Bring a small bag of horse feed, the buffalo you will see on the side of the roads will eat straight from your hand.

Don't try and pet the cougars.

You can however pet the wolves

I saw on TV that Yellowstone sits on one of the biggest and most pent up volcanos on the planet. They say it's a ticking time bomb that could wipe out half the US in one eruption! Hope this doesn't happen on your trip! So have fun and if you can, get a video of you riding a wild buffalo. That would be epic!

Good point. Take a few rolls of tin foil so you can make a shield against the molten lava.

Old faithful is overrated, don't waste your time waiting for it to burp

This reminded me, did I miss hump day this week?

if you can go see
Lonestar Geyser, on the South side
better than Old Faithful & you will have it to yourself
a decent 20 minute hike to get back there
but it has a parking area

Safe travels and enjoy it. Great vacation for sure!

After feeding all the bears, cougars, buffalo, and elk from hand, as any OT'er would, try exploring outside the marked trails and you could experience a lava type bath. Show us the pictures or it didn't happen.

Made it to Amarillo went to Cadillac Ranch now sitting doe for some pie at 575 Pizza which two friends recommended. Gonna be an early night have to make it to Lamarie tomorrow

thats a good way to do it with kids

I�m going there someday before I die. Enjoy the trip.

A lot of shady advice on here, well done all

load up on gummy bears in Colorado

Wide variety of ways to get loaded up there

Last time I was there it was covered up with tourist from all over the world. They do business here and vacation here. Be nice. Have fun. They all speak Jibberish. Mostly Japanese and Germans. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Awesome place!

Let the kids stay awake as long as possible at night. That way, they'll sleep the whole time in the car.
I don't have kids, but it makes sense to me.

when in Rome....

Trumps in office bro

Those elk that lay around on the lawn in the afternoon at the lodge on the north side are not tame. DO NOT LET MY GRANDKIDS TRY TO PET THEM!!!

Just Incase you took me seriously, do not try to pet or feed anything.

so, your going to see an old geyser going off every 45 minutes. Instead of checking the OT for old geesers going off every 45 minutes.




Been there, beautiful place.

Just got to CO. About to stop at a dispensary and see what it�s like. May or may not make a purchase.

You'll be surprised at the selection of edibles. They even have beef jerky.

Please, for your safety, pay attention to signs like this:

made it to Larmie, wy

I�ll be in Laramie next Wednesday how is it

It's Wyoming. You have to look around to find anybody. Heck, Ft. Worth has a bigger population that that whole state.

That�s a fun trip to make. Hope you enjoy it.

So true, there are more antelope living in town than people unless there is a rodeo going on.

Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Hey dad?



Are we there yet?

Have a great time! One of my favorite places to go. 4 days won't feel like enough.

Ft Worth is like China.

Made it to the cabin in Island Park, ID. yesterday evening, already seen a bear, elk, and buffalo

Gonna do the upper loop and Norris Valley today. Bad part is it's raining.

Ratz, be careful around those bears

Welcome to Wyoming!! Hope you enjoy your trip.
Some great fishing around the state.
When you come back through Laramie, stop at The Library for a nice local made beer.

Don't approach any wildlife in Yellowstone, we've had multiple charges and gorings so far and summer hasn't even started.
Saratoga , Wyoming would be a nice stop after driving down from the park, or going to it. Free hot springs soaking pools, small western town feel, good food.
The drive over Highway 130 is a must. Bear Tree in Centennial at base of mountains has great food and atmosphere.
Cody is a neat town also.

Yep , our population is only 500,000 statewide. Enjoy the wildlife.

Take notes and PM them to me.

Flying into Bozeman end of September for 4 days of yellowstone.

Don't take a dip in any of the hot springs.

I didn't know your blog would include posts to the local SA news...

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/...in-13004050.php

Don't win stupid prizes

if you haven't been,put glacier natl. park and going to the sun road on your list...IMHO the Icefields parkway between Banf and Jasper ,Alberta may be the most scenic highway in North America and top of my "do it again" list would be driving the Alaskan highway....

where is all that in comparison to Dubois ?

so day one in the park and we'e seen buffalo, antelope, wt and mule deer, and several bears. About to head back for day two the lower loop

Beartrap, my son and I spent a week in Alberta and made the Icefield Parkway run several times. Incredible country up there.

Sounds awesome!!

You may see some moose over in the Bighorns or if time on a drive through the Snowy Range over here near Laramie.
We were able to find some on the Kelly Road in Grand Teton, north of the Town of Kelly.

When you come back.. take the Northeast exit of Yellowstone going over Windy Pass down to Cody, WY. Then go to Buffalo Bill Museum.

Did I miss the link to the blog?

I thought that the moose had been wiped out by the wolves after they were reintroduced into the park. We didn't see any when we were there a few years ago.

No

No I've seen a buch of moose around there.

Here's a young bull in Grand Teton back a couple of years ago in Sept.
The velvet bulls were along Highway 130 in the Snowy Range the day before archery season opened, 2 of them were harvested the next day.

The moose count is down about 50% in the Rocky MTS due to wolfs. The Bighorns he was referring to is in the center of the State and so far not many wolfs known there. The moose are big in the Bighorns.

I wouldn't say all of the moose herds are down 50 %, but some are definitely struggling.

Ratz we're getting down to about 41 tonight in Laramie. Hope you all are getting some of this cool weather wherever you are tonight.
Safe travels and watch out for antelope in the right of ways.

We've also had some interesting storms down this way today, same forecast for tomorrow.

Yep got cold last night. It's rained almost nonstop since we got here.

No pics what kind of blog is this

This blog is so riveting I feel like I�m making the trip myself

I'll post pix when i return. Too many to go through right now, plus the wifi sucks and it'd take 30min to upload a pix.

Has anything bitten you yet?

how could wolf's have any affect on the moose population?

The packs hunt them, run them down, and eat them.

Wolves

Wolves are
Carnivore
So packs of
Wolves
Attack
The moose
For food.

Wait. Run that one by me again. Slower this time. And can you add some stick figure drawings to help illustrate this?

Got it. That was way easier to understand. Thanks, Jay.

You all in an Allegro motorhome ?

Thank you.

What does a bobcat eating a mule deer have to do with anything?

why haven't lions wiped out all the prey in Africa?

no way in he77 wolf's wiped out the moose population in Wyoming
a moose would kick their A

Moose populations have declined all over North America and nobody knows why. It's probably not wolves.

Brain worms suck.

I've seen video of Wolves pulling down Elk and Bison in the deep winter snow.
I'm sure Moose fare no better.

Here is a theory for you, For generations , Mother Moose did not have to deal with
wolves. Now they are re-introduced , today's Moms do not have the instincts to battle wolves.

Calf mortality has increased dramatically .

your mileage may vary

Mo

i will buy that theory

The human population of Wyoming has fell by about 5,000 people since 2014. That could be due to crude oil prices, but it was probably wolves.

got to our final stop Santa FE. Had some awesome eats at Tecalote grill. Now do we just get a good nights sleep or do we go out? Keep in mind we have two kids in tow. I know a proper blog has pix, and I'll get those up on Sunday.

stay

#MooseToo

I think support the Wolves over the Moose. I'd like to hear the case to support the Moose.

You may be right the Moose may not be down that far yet but the Elk definatly are. The herds were about 16,000 elk in the Yellowstone area. I think the last I saw they are down to about 8,000 now.

You don't live in Wyoming and do not know what you are talking about. The Wolves are destroying the herds up here. Elk, Moose or any other animals that have young. They eat the young and no repopulation. The herds are way down in the north west due to wolves

Wolves are awesome

Wolves are taking the herds out by killing the young. They are destroying the elk herds for sure. They are hurting any wild life that have young up in the north west by killing the young. The Wyoming game and fish have video of wolves killing for the fun of it and leaving the animals laying. They like to take down cow elk with calves still inside and tearing the cow open and pulling the young out and leaving both to die. Wolves are the only animal more vicious then a human for killing for the fun and training the young wolves to kill. Their use to be youtube videos of the wolves killing like that.

A article from Jackson hole Wyoming.

https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/opinion/c...658c8679c9.html

This is what Liberals who do not live in the back country of the North West say. They have no idea of what really goes on. Wolves should be killed out like before. They serve no good purpose in the wild. The wolves they reintroduce or not the size wolves that once roamed wild in the Rockies. They are the big northern wolves. They are bigger then the rocky mountain wolves that once lived here. These little dogs are usually over 200 pounds and have huge feet. They are big enough to take down full grown elf or what ever if they chose to hunt them.

Holy cow.

You are much more perceptive than I am. When I dissected what Westside wrote, I just thought �Westside thinks wolves are awesome�.

You are correct Sawhorse

thats exactly what I thought he was saying. I am only saying to me they are nothing more then killers of good game and are destroying the elk deer and moose herds where the wolves live. I see nothing awesome about them. The Peta people think the wolves are awesome which is why they got them reintroduced into this country. The Wolves that were native to the area where no where near the size of the big Canadian wolves brought back into the area and these wolves are much deadlier on the big game and ranchers cow herds then the native wolves. You will not hear a rancher from this part of the country that likes wolves nor guides nor about anyone from this part of the country. The only people that like them are Peta and people whom do not live here, or have to deal with them year around, not just when you go to YellowStone.

This argument about �wolfs� (or wolves, for those who don�t speak like butch) is much more entertaining than the non-existent blog about Yellowstone.

What if they could fly, and maybe had quills...like a porcupine?

that is just silly

maybe Santa Clause is real maybe Elvis is really not dead, and maybe we are all wrong about Clinton

Are you sure one didn't huff, and puff and blow your house down?

I like seeing wolves, but I probably should be careful about saying that in certain company.

They have hurt the elk hunting pretty bad but they have helped other things.

And once they run out of elk and deer what's the next critter they are gonna go after?

and what does that have to do with the price of eggs in china.

Tourist.

I think only conservative tourists. Since liberals like wolfs, I guess wolfs like liberals. That�s my take on this deal.

Law of Demand, Eggs should be stored in brick houses to keep the price low. Less breakage.

Some other animal where neither flight nor quills would be required to take it down.

The wolf population usually crashes when they run out of elk and deer. Then elk and deer populations rise again and the wolf population follows and so on. The wolves are on the high side of the seesaw right now.

I saw a young wolf eat a snake when I was young and hanging out with some other young people. I don't know if it was a young snake but it made me think wolves are awesome.

Im not buying this. An elf has magical powers.

How big is a full grown elf?

Bout tree fiddy

got home about 90min ago. I'll get pix posted tomorrow too beat right now.

When are you going to post the blog?

I'm still waiting on the link to the blog.


Wait, you know what? I'm unsubscribing.

el coyote and 1Shot are part of my wolf pack.

I bet we'd destroy all kinds of stuff

Str8 up wrek shop

I'd become a vegan wolf and eat all the giant salvinia out of lakes

I�d get a helicopter and become AirWolf

After that I'd become a carnivore again and only eat quail. Then I'd tell everyone that fire ants killed them all... with feathers in my mouth.

I'd also learn to be a stock broker on wallstreet

Then you three can put on your dances with wolves hip hop dance thing y�all do.

Dances with wolfs of wallstreet. Ecstasy edition.

I'd be a wolf in sheep's clothing.

The last wolf pack in Yellowstone before reintroduction was killed out in the early 1900 so there wasn't a seesaw effect for almost 60 years only a few single wolves left in the lower 48 states after packs were killed out. I think it in about 1926. Wyomign ranches have fought it sent they brought them back and fought them anytime the wolves came off federal land like yellowstone

I saw some kind of wolf drinkin' a pi�a colada at Trader Vic's, his hair was perfect.

Holy [censored], I love wolves

This is going to be my next blanket

Is Derek in the Wolfpack?

He�s the leader of that wolf pack

Figured so.

He more like that bald bear in The Great Outdoors that John Candy shot

He's furrier than your typical wolf.

Another awesome wolf.

Wow!

Wolves will not decimate our elk or moose populations. They along with pests and disease will definitely hurt them.
Wolves have been spotted and documented in Wyoming well since they were exterminated, ranchers have seen them as late as the 80-90 in some spots.
We have wolves roaming now around our part of the state, they are classified as predators and can be shot on sight.
Only right around the Yellowstone area are they protected.

Gusick read this:https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolf-restoration.htm

The wolves re canadian gray wolves, they have been here forever .

Hope the trip was fun Rats!!

I live in northern Wyoming and can post these all day to that shows what wolves have done to the herds. The moose herds are way down and they are having a problem getting them back up because of the wolves killing the calves. The herds where in the 20,000 range just before the wolves were introduced and yes some is hunting but a ton is the calves being killed and the herds can not over come the loses. The moose and elk and mule deer take the biggest hits. They claim up to 11,000 elk a year are killed by the wolves in the rockies not to mention the moose, cows and their calves off of ranches. The reason Wyoming has a hard time getting the wolves delisted in Wyoming the ranchers refuse to quit killing them off of yellowstone. When wolves come off the federal lands the ranchers kill them. This has been known for years. People in Wyoming have never like the regulations that hurts the ranchers and guides. The wolves that lived here that where native to this area where Red wolves that are smaller. The big gray wolves where brought down from Canada.

https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/opinion/c...658c8679c9.html

The below is a excerpt from a page on wolf reintroduction.

National Park Service Biologist Wayne Brewster informed guides and outfitters living north of Yellowstone National Park, to expect a fifty percent (50%) drop in harvestable game when wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park.[7] This was confirmed when in 2006, the Yellowstone elk herd had in fact shrunk to 50% since the mid 1990s though researchers documented that most of the elk that fell prey to wolves were very old, diseased, or very young[citation needed]. Two 30-day periods of tracking radio collared wolves showed that 77�97% of prey species documented by wolves in the park were elk. Outside the park, numerous hunting outfitters have closed due to the concomitant 90% reduction in elk permits.[8

Errday

Fake news. At least 43.6% is due to 1shot, Jay, and myself.

If the moose�s puppies were born with the ability to fly, and developed quills just after leaving the safety of the moose womb, it would vastly improve their chances of survival.

I would never blame an innocent wolf for a moose�s inability to adapt. Sounds like the moose are the real liberals here.

#WLM

good for y'all

state of Wyoming been known to investigate people for killing more then their license allows. LOL

you sound more like a troll who wouldn't know the difference in a moose and a dog. LOL your stupid post about the easter bunny and such are just plain stupid and show how little you know. I could care less from someone who had so little knowledge of the subject.

Bruh. We are wolfs. You and your state can�t touch us.

yea if it really happen [and you weren't just trying to be a jerk] you wouldn't be saying that. know a guy from Florida a few years ago lost is hunting rights for several years because he killed a bull on a cow tag. They do go after people all over the country and they will track you down if you do. The Northwest makes a lot of money off of wild hunts.

Those Florida bulls are hard to tell the difference from a Florida cow

I�ve always liked the Chicago Bulls

I promise I'll get pix posted once I figure out the problem.

I respect all opinions and meant no harm with replies I posted on the terrific Yellowstone trip blog. I must state however, that although I may have endured a couple of personal attacks, none of my theories have been refuted.

My favorite is the running of the bulls.

I wonder if Yellowstone tourism numbers have spiked since the blog started back on June 15th.

Until Ratz shows up, took this picture today near Rayburn.

think I got pix to work






we made it to Amarillo the first day. Daughter enjoyed spray painting the cadys

Here is some from Garden of the Gods in CO.

Southern Entry to Grand Teton NP


It rained on us most of every day were were in either the Tetons or Yellowstone. Still saw some wildlife, but I think it kept most of them bedded down.

Is this the official blog?

blog went way with bad wifi somewhere in Idaho. Now you get this short summery.

and that's all you get as I'm having trouble uploading again

I feel like we�ve been baited and switched. Here I was thinking I was going to get a link to an awesome blog, and you just tear my heart out by denying me this wonderful glimpse into your terrific vacation.

Until Ratz returns, I got a squatch pic from near where I found the elk.

Garden looks better than elcoyotes

Thank the good Lord for providing that fig leaf.

click bait

Be safe, bro!

think I got the pix thing figured out, most of my pix are over 4mb thus can't be posted on this site.

the snow we drove through

the water here is much more green than what the pix shows.

Did you see any bison?

got so many more but they are too large to post on TFF. I hope y'all enjoy the lil bit of Yellowstone I was able to bring back. It's an amazing place and I can only imagine how much better it is when the weather is good.

those are good

With this up to date live time posted blog it feels like I'm in Yellowstone with the ratz family right now.

Beautiful place! Did you pet one of the baby bison?

See any Chinese people?

oh I thought about it, since they get so close to you, but then you see mamma, and you change your mind real fast

actually no, it was not nearly as crowded as I expected, but the weather could have been the reason for that.

LULZ.

Ratz is living in the future, and time traveled to Yellowstone. Then he stopped off at the TFF on his way back to the future to post his live blog.

let's just wrap this thread up as a FAIL

welcome back. We found grand-pa.

Great place. My wife took some nice photos there this past February

https://bethgoetzmanphotography.smugmug.com/Vacations/YellowstoneWinterworkshop2018/

Ermahgerd, wolfs!!!

*wolfs

I pulled an f4b

I heard Yogi was hangin' around there....see any bears? Or were some of those bears that walked like bison? Thanks for sharing....

boyz