Yellowstone and Tetons!

This summer we continued the National Park tour - driving to Yellowstone and Tetons.

On the way, we broke up the driving with stops at Oregon Trail Museum, the Birds of Prey Museum, and Craters of the Moon National Monument.

 Craters of the Moon National Monument.  They trained for the moon landings here.

Taking the tram out of Jackson Hole

 The view from the top of the tram ride.

 We also rode a smaller gondola (4-seater)

 Lots of sage

 And some bee balm (Monarda)

 Then on to Yellowstone!

Yellowstone Lake 

Quite a few mudpots, cauldrons, geyers and steaming pits!

First buffalo sighting! It walked right in front of our car.  The boys thought it was going to smash us!

 In our campground...

Old faithful - the calm before the storm.

 Another buffalo crossed right in front of us!

The dragon's mouth.

Yellowstone Falls

 Tower Falls

We did a White Water Rafting trip, but left our phones (cameras) behind.  This is part of the stretch that we rafted.

 This was our raft! We spotted it the next day on this trailer.

Here is another raft on the Yellowstone River in the same stretch that we floated.

North Entrance to Yellowstone (Gardiner)

We saw quite a bit of wildlife while there - Birds, elk, buffalo, antelope, a few bears, a even a wolf (with a radio collar)!

 A storm a brewin'

 A bear - well, most of it...

Our lone wolf sighting - We had  a great view of it - I was just too stunned to get a picture until it headed up the cut bank.

We spotted this road driving thru Kennewick, WA on the way back from Yellowstone...

 All in all a great trip with lots of memories made!