Today we had a very early start and left the hotel at 6 and took off for Lamar Valley once again with our tour guide mike. Once we got there we were super excited to see what we thought were the wolves again but turned out to be a small herd of bison which had a bison with a broken leg among them. While we were checking out the bison we also noticed quite a few sheep on top of a hill behind us which promptly took off running down the other side and we lost sight of them.

From Lamar we left for the Barronette Peak in search of bears along the way and whatever else we might see. The mountains were covered in snow but Dalton was lucky enough to spot a mountain goat way up in the hills and then found it in the spotting scope. That was especially difficult since the goats were creme colored and blended right in to the snowy terrain. After the Barronette Peak we hiked to the acclimation pens which was where the wolves that came to Yellowstone were brought to so they didn’t run away into civilization where they would be killed. Last but not least we went to a presentation by Nathan Varley who lived his whole life in The Yellowstone ecosystem and taught us a lot about the Yellowstone ecosystem and about the wolf reintroduction. He mentioned a cool fact that the Yellowstone park is home to the farthest point from civilization in the lower 48 states which is about 26 miles away from any road.