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Last Thurs 4-21
It snowed in the night but not enough that we couldn’t take off on an adventure. On our way down the hill there was a herd of bison walking along the road towards us. This was on the curve where the sheep usually hang out. We were stopped and so was the on coming traffic trying to get to work. Some man pulled out around the oncoming traffic and drove right towards me. He almost hit the bison. He was crazy. It’s too bad there wasn’t a ranger sitting behind me.
We went to Elkhorn, a “ghost” town we had heard about near Boulder. It was almost snowed in but we did take some pictures and a man came out of his cabin and said we could go in the dance hall.
When we got ready to leave his dog was lying right in front of our car and we couldn’t get him to move. He started barking and the man came back out. It was then that I noticed the dog only had three legs. The man said he got his leg caught in a trap and they had to amputate it. He also told me that he moved to Elkhorn from LA right before 9-11. He is living in the cabin his grandfather built in 1893. He had a porch full of junk. We wondered if it was left over from when his grandfather lived there.
We drove on to Boulder to have lunch (at 2:30.) When we came out of the restaurant it was beginning to snow and hail. We wanted to go to the Boulder Hot Springs resort that we had passed on our way into town. Before we got there (about 10 minutes away) our car and the hillside was covered with snow. By the time we pulled up in the front the weather was fine.
Before we got home we got snowed on again. The weather was so weird.
We decided to stop at Chico’s and have dinner. Our table was right by the window so we could look out at everyone in the “hot springs.” About half way through our dinner we noticed that there was so much steam coming off the springs that you could no longer see the “swimmers.” We couldn’t figure it out until we looked down on the boardwalk and saw it was full of snow and ice. It snowed and hailed like crazy. We were driving home in it for about 15 minutes until it just quit.
Outside the park in big pastures we saw hundreds and hundreds of elk. I have never seen so many together in one field before. We guessed there must have been 500-700 of them. It appears they have all left Yellowstone!
It snowed in the night but not enough that we couldn’t take off on an adventure. On our way down the hill there was a herd of bison walking along the road towards us. This was on the curve where the sheep usually hang out. We were stopped and so was the on coming traffic trying to get to work. Some man pulled out around the oncoming traffic and drove right towards me. He almost hit the bison. He was crazy. It’s too bad there wasn’t a ranger sitting behind me.
We went to Elkhorn, a “ghost” town we had heard about near Boulder. It was almost snowed in but we did take some pictures and a man came out of his cabin and said we could go in the dance hall.
When we got ready to leave his dog was lying right in front of our car and we couldn’t get him to move. He started barking and the man came back out. It was then that I noticed the dog only had three legs. The man said he got his leg caught in a trap and they had to amputate it. He also told me that he moved to Elkhorn from LA right before 9-11. He is living in the cabin his grandfather built in 1893. He had a porch full of junk. We wondered if it was left over from when his grandfather lived there.
We drove on to Boulder to have lunch (at 2:30.) When we came out of the restaurant it was beginning to snow and hail. We wanted to go to the Boulder Hot Springs resort that we had passed on our way into town. Before we got there (about 10 minutes away) our car and the hillside was covered with snow. By the time we pulled up in the front the weather was fine.
Before we got home we got snowed on again. The weather was so weird.
We decided to stop at Chico’s and have dinner. Our table was right by the window so we could look out at everyone in the “hot springs.” About half way through our dinner we noticed that there was so much steam coming off the springs that you could no longer see the “swimmers.” We couldn’t figure it out until we looked down on the boardwalk and saw it was full of snow and ice. It snowed and hailed like crazy. We were driving home in it for about 15 minutes until it just quit.
Outside the park in big pastures we saw hundreds and hundreds of elk. I have never seen so many together in one field before. We guessed there must have been 500-700 of them. It appears they have all left Yellowstone!
Bison on their way to "work."
Elkhorn
The cabin the grandfather built in 1893
Really cool car we saw in Boulder
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Where's the dog!
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