G.W.A-Day 5, 6/25

Mom took the hotel shuttle from the hotel in Bozeman to the airport at 5:30am. Madeline and I slept late, starting the pattern of the next few days. We would drive well into the night (Mad would usually fall asleep in the back seat), reach a hotel, sleep late and repeat. We would not have been able to do this if Dea and the little girls had come along, but then, they probably wouldn't have enjoyed all the driving anyway.

After leaving Bozeman we drove back to Yellowstone, stopped at Tower Falls, drove through the beautiful Lamar Valley and exited at the northeast entrance. We continued across Wyoming, crossing the Big Horn Mountains (like the Wind River Range, they were a revelation) and finally reached Spearfish, SD for the night. After the sun went down the bugs were hitting the windshield in such large numbers that it sounded like rain.

This is the Devil's Slide, on the road from the North entrance of Yellowstone To Livingston, MT. What is most interesting is that the different rock layers were laid down horizontally and faulting tilted the ground vertical.

Mad at the northern (Gardner, MT) entrance.

This was probably the highlight of the trip for Mad; a buffalo was leading a line a vehicles down the other lane.

This is the Lamar valley. We didn't see any wolves, but all the lumps on the far side of the river are buffalo.