A walk in late June

IMG_0009

Snow diverted use from our original objective. While it poured for 72 hours in town last week, three feet fell in the highest reaches.

IMG_0008

IMG_0013

IMG_0017

IMG_0029

The critters are in full summer feeding mode.

IMG_0032

rufukkinwidme?

IMG_0034

IMG_0043

Plan B turned to Plan C when still more snow sent us down and around the first lake, rather than up through the cliffs to the second lake.

IMG_0049

IMG_0053

It was ok.

IMG_0060

Bear sign was everywhere. Two bears in the parking lot first thing, scat all over the place, tracks, rubs.

IMG_0086

And this mom with two cubs.

IMG_0093

IMG_0095

Nice.

3 responses to “A walk in late June”

  1. Is that commonplace for the bighorn to let you get so close?

    1. In the national park its not unusual. Elsewhere it would unheard of.

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s