SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!! That's how Saturday, May 29, 2004 went in Yellowstone from Old Faithful Inn northward to Mammoth Hot Springs. We delayed our departure from Old Faithful Inn until the roads cleared up a little (a portion of the main road was closed for a few hours in the morning and I wasn't about to drive on these curvy and steep mountainous roads in snow). Included in these photos, besides the beautiful snow, was a buffalo and  its young plus Old Faithful Geyser erupting in the snow.


Looking at Old Faithful Inn through the snow, about 8 a.m. May 29, 2004.






Sarah helping to load the car during the snowstorm. About 5 inches fell.








Old Faithful erupting about 930 a.m. in the snow.


Closeups using a flash of the pine cones on the fir trees.




While driving north to Mammoth Hot Springs from Old Faithful Inn, we saw this group of cars stopped. There was a group of buffalo crossing the highway. It was about noon.


A young buffalo feeding with its mother next to the road. They show no fear of people, but you are warned not to approach them within 25 feet.


A herd of Elk can barely be seen in the middle of the field. There wasn't as much snow here, which was about 20 miles north of Old Faithful.


Sandhill Crane can be seen next to the water in the middle of the photo. There was a white trumpeter swan on this lake, also.

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