But first, I must go back to yesterday and the hike we took. At the start of the trail we saw this sign. They are everywhere you might leave a paved road.
As compared to the one that the Province of British Columbia posts in their parks.
We had seen a Grizzly up close and personal from our car the first day we went into Yellowstone. We had not seen a single black bear. More about that in a minute.
We are standing at an overlook admiring Jackson Lake and the mountains when a man walked up to us and said, "Don't you go to Our Lady of Nazareth in Roanoke?" Rich Whitney, a choir member who sings almost every Sunday at the 9:30 Mass which we attend. He was headed east from Seattle with a good friend who attends St. Andrews, another Catholic Church in Roanoke.
We were so wrapped up talking about the odds of traveling 2600 miles and finding someone we sit 20' from every Sunday that we didn't see his friend, Mike waving frantically at us from a few hundred feet up the road. He finally came running close enough that we could hear him yelling, "BEAR. BEAR" as he pointed down the bank toward the lake shore. THEN we noticed the mob of people and all the cars pulled off the road. So we took off to see the bear. Got there kinda late and Carol only got a couple of distance shots.
But the people who left after he went over the bank didn't get any of him starting to go for a swim like she did ! We watched him swim for a while but the trees were too thick to get a picture.
After a wonderful meal at one of the restaurants at Jackson Lodge, we went back to Gros Ventres to relax and get ready to go to Kemmerer, WY. It's about half way between Jackson and Park City, UT which was our next scheduled stop. We decided we needed two or three "down days" to get caught up on blog, Facebook, laundry and just put our feet up and relax.
On the road from the main highway to the campground, we passed this sign.
Lucia Craighead, if you have any relatives in WY you should ingratiate yourself to them. Their ranch has some of the most spectacular views in America. Just sayin'
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