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Posted by Paul (63.153.25.34) on 17:30:27 08/06/17

An all day trip Friday was the worst ever in some 41 years of being here and coming here. Smoke at high altitude rendered the sky white all day, sun and moon rose and set crimson red. There were no, as in no people at the Park except for the obligatory wolfies at Lamar.

Buffalo were abundant and "sniffing around" with a great deal of wallowing.

One car in line at the NW entrance. Five people at the Grill in Gardiner. 6 people at the Bridge Cowboy grill.

Drove NW entrance to Tower to Canyon and back to mammoth and saw one, one only elk. Elk are nowhere evident. Mammoth had no elk at all. Birds totally absent except for two ravens at Golden Gate.

What saved a very large carbon footprint was the Mountain Goat nursing a kid on the rock ledge about 50 feet higher than the raven nest.

It is hot, dry, dusty, void of mammals except bison. and two antelope on the end zone of the school field.

Temperatures cooled today, 44 at Bozeman and smoke is beginning to thin.

The circuit was the north circle Mammoth to Tower to Canyon to Norris to Mammoth. Time from 7:15 AM to 4:00 PM.

The good news was that construction still blocks Norris to Mammoth but only 6 cars in line northbound and 12 southbound.

Just a report folks. Now don't shoot the messenger.



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