I was expecting to keep blogging regularly from my hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs, in the North of Yellowstone Park. I was told there would be internet connections somewhere in that little village. I was misinformed. Tonight I snuck out of Wyoming and found an internet connection in Gardiner, Montana, not to mention a lovely little Chinese restaurant.
I will agree with one thing that Professor Schaff says. The West is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. Yesterday our instructors took us to Yellowstone's Grand Canyon. I didn't know Yellowstone had a Grand Canyon. It has the most magnificent waterfall I ever got a glimpse of. I haven't seen Old Faithful, but I have seen a lot of holes that steam, smoke, bubble, boil, burst, and smell a lot Jon Schaff's dog.
I also so wolves this morning. We watched as four or five pups tried to play with a grizzly cub, much to momma bear's dismay. I also saw one of the males return from a hunt and regurgitate for the pups. Now that's what I call entertainment. We have been learning a lot about the wolf "restoration policy", as one of the wolf watchers calls it. On the one side are ranchers, who don't want very smart predators killing their livestock. On the other side are a lot of people who think wolves are really, really cool. I am in the second group, but I have to say that our motives are rather impressionistic. Pro-wolf people like to say that the wolves are good for the park, but no one has yet explained to me exactly what that means. More wolves equals more bears minus a lot of elk and coyote. I just don't know how to solve that equation.
I'll post some pictures when I get the time.
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