Tuesday morning we took off with it being a pretty rainy, chilly ad icky morning. Along the way we were lucky enough to stop at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park for about 15 minutes. While we were there we got to look at the painted canyon and tried to look for Bison but we were unsuccessful. From there we headed to Gardiner and arrived at around 7:30 and prepared for the morning trip. At 7 we left from the hotel with our tour guide Mike and were lucky enough to have some action right away.

Right off the road we saw a pack of 5 coyotes playing , and just a little farther down the road into Lamar Valley we saw something not many people get the chance to see. About 3/4 of a mile into the valley was 9 wolves from the Junction Butte pack. This was pretty cool since wolves usually aren’t that easy to find and there is only 11 wolves in the pack. We also got to go through Dunraven Pass and then go to see Mount Washburn, and along with that was the canyon which was a cool spectacle with all the fresh snow on the ground.

Later in the day we got to do a hike up to the Otter Creek lunch table where garbage would be dumped and hundreds of people would come to watch the bears feed. The most bears reported at the dump at one time was around 70, which is the largest amount ever recorded at a dumpsite at one time. We also went to a presentation by Travis Wyman and learned a lot about bear management,  bear reproduction and what foods are preferred at different times of the year by grizzlies and black bears.