Yellowstone National Park 2024 Trip Reports
Trip Report ~ Bear & Wolf Sightings ~ by Bill Hamblin
04 through 07 October 2024
Yellowstone National Park
Beautiful Mountain Lion ~ Lamar Valley ~ April 10th, 2023 ~ Photo by Linda Rudge Carney © All Rights Reserved
Mountain Lion ~ also known as the Cougar, Puma, Panther, or Catamount ~ Puma concolor
~ October 2024 ~
October 4th - Friday
25 degrees in Silver Gate this morning warming up to a warm 80 degrees with high winds out in the park. I watched a cow and yearling calf moose on the skyline of Prospect Peak viewed from Boulder Pullout. Strange place for moose. From 1:30 p.m. through 2:45 p.m. I watched a grizzly sow with two cubs of the year digging in the Bowl from the Institute. They were constantly digging and working at feeding.
October 5th - Saturday
A warm 46 degrees this morning warming up to 65 degrees. Today was a very smokey day but lessened in the afternoon. At 7:35 a.m. I found a colorful grizzly digging high in the Bowl. It remained in sight for well over an hour. At 8:55 a.m. I watched a gray collared wolf near the Marge Simpson Tree. The wolf watchers were watching a few more than the gray. At 4:10 p.m. I found the grizzly sow with two cubs of the year on Specimen Ridge. Today they were moving to the west and in view for only a few minutes in two different clearings.
October 6th - Sunday
28 degrees this morning warming up to 70 degrees out in the park. I had a great horned owl just off the road this morning in Lamar Canyon, it flew as I passed by. At 6:53 a.m. I found a dark grizzly crossing east to west under a bison herd on Amethyst Bench. It crossed the drainage and was in view a little longer in the sagebrush. At 7:50 a.m. four black wolves of the Junction Butte pack were bedded near the Marge Simpson Tree in Slough Creek. The wolf watchers had a total of five blacks and a gray this morning. At 9:10 a.m. Jeff and Val B showed me a colorful grizzly digging in the Bowl. It was the same grizzly as yesterday and was in view for well over an hour. At 5:35 p.m. I found a small grizzly moving west to east low in the A-Z Meadow. In view for only five minutes, then it disappeared behind Jasper Bench
October 7th - Monday
28 degrees this morning warming up to 69 degrees, but smoke came back in the late morning and afternoon. The viewing to the south was terrible. I hiked up the beaver ponds and Crystal Rock today with Frank H. When we were close to the Rock, we heard three or four lone wolf howls which seemed pretty close. We never located the source of the howling. After fifteen minutes or so we heard two or three more howls farther off perhaps in the Slough Bowl. At 1:45 p.m. I found a grizzly digging in the top of A-Z Meadow. It remained in view for about forty-five minutes, but the viewing was terrible with the smoke and haze.
People Seen
Wolf Watchers: From Montana: Jeremy S, Rick M, Russ K, Jeff A, Kristina and Corey G. From Wyoming: Dale and Faye B. From Kansas: Calvin and Lynette J. From Mississippi: Chuck and Wynelle M. From Colorado: Steve and Robin M, and Mark and Carol R. From Utah: Chris B and friend Wendy. From Missouri: Frank H. From Virginia: Des and Colleen C. From Illinois: Andy and Nikki S. And from Pennsylvania: Jack D. Bear Watchers seen this report: From Montana: Doug M, Jeff and Val B, Mike W, and Jeff B and Kathy M. From Tennessee: Mike and Donna F with daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. From Illinois: Wayne K. From Utah: Marc and Liz H. And from Wyoming: Tom H. Others seen this report: From Montana: Cara M, Brad B, Mike S, Michael S, Quinn H. Mike S, MacNeil L, Audra C, Alexander M, Kate J, Evan S and Chris H. And from Vermont: John K.
Beautiful Mountain Lion ~ Lamar Valley ~ April 10th, 2023 ~ Photo by Linda Rudge Carney © All Rights Reserved
Mountain Lion ~ also known as the Cougar, Puma, Panther, or Catamount ~ Puma concolor
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