May 19-26, 2019

SNOW! and I don’t mean a flurry or two either. There is a lot of snow still on the ground here! They just opened this RV park in Grand Teton last week and had to plow it out! And it is cold here- we are in the middle of that cold snap and at 7000ft- so temps are freezing at night and maybe reach 45 in the day, and mostly overcast or showery. Brrrrrrrr……

Yellowstone has TONS more snow on the ground, except around any of the hot springs and geysers!

Steam vents from around Yellowstone Lake and Grand Prismatic Thermal.

Both parks were very, very busy, especially for so early in the season. Parking lots at some hikes and thermal places had a line of cars waiting to park, even before Memorial Day weekend. It is great to see some many people out visiting our great National Parks, however, for those of us that like to commune with nature, it is trying.

Wildlife viewing is big here. The young’uns were supposed to be around, but we only saw a few baby bison. Lots of Elk, but no young.

Derek came up in a camper van and spent the week with us. Because the weather was marginal he did lots of college coursework and we went sightseeing and hiking when we could.
Rhylee is still not sleeping well at night, so we keep trying different things.
Off to the puckerbrush and fewer crowds and people…we hope. First night out of the Parks and we were along the Yellowstone River with about 4 other campers on BLM land…sweet!