Stories, photographs, travel notes, and safari reflections from Doug & Marcy

grizzly encounter

Traveling North of 60 … We used a guide service to help us find the best wildlife shots in Yellowstone, and yesterday’s excursion came with a great grizzly encounter. Our guide spotted a grizzly sow and her two yearling cubs on a hillside to the front and high above us. They were just small dots […]

grizzly 399 and bear jams

Traveling north of sixty … Grizzly 399 was born 25 years ago in the Pilgrim Creek Area of Grand Teton National Park and is older than usual for a grizzly bear. She was given her name as a research number by the Yellowstone Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team. I understand that this particular grizzly is […]

Montana and Wyoming

Thanks to some Delta Skymiles, we find ourselves in Montana, with a base of operations in Bozeman. This turned out to be the easiest of hops from Knoxville with a 6:45 departure, then one hour and 50 minutes to Minneapolis with just 50 steps to the next gate. We barely had enough time for coffee […]

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