MAY 30, 2004. Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel; drive through Lamar Valley.


Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Yellowstone General Store, May 30.


Mammoth Hot Springs Geysers.


Sarah at a cold picnic table outside the Yellowstone General Store. It was in the 40s and windy.


Black bear on the drive through the Lamar Valley.


The Lamar Valley in Yellowstone.


Lamar Valley trees.


Looking at Elk. You can also see remnants of the 1988 Yellowstone fire.


Closeup of the moose with my digital camera.


Flowers in Lamar Valley. There weren't many flowers blooming yet on May 30.




The sun finally filled the Lamar Valley.




More valley scenes.




Ducks in the Lamar Valley. There was also a pack of wolves in the distance.


You can see the road to the right. Whenever we saw a lot of cars pulled off the road, we knew there were some kind of animal they were looking at.


My car.


Buffalo were all over the place.


Floating Island Lake in the Lamar Valley.


We had a picnic next to the Yellowstone River close to Mammoth Hot Springs. Here is a sound MPEG movie taken at this site:
PICNIC MOVIE




Elk on a hill across the road from Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.

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