Gardiner Montana and Yellowstone

Made it to Yellowstone! Our trip up took us through the park today. Did not get to see much of it as the drive was pretty hairy with the portacrib attached. We hit snow on the upper peaks as we came through at about 10k feet for a short time. Drive was beautiful, although sad too. We saw a large part of what burned in the last couple years. Much more on that later though.

We are staying the next week at Rocky Mountain RV park in Gardiner Montana. It's a small town in the mountains on the Yellowstone River. There big claim to fame is the river rafting and the fact that they are the northern entrance to Yellowstone. We are camped 2 miles for the entrance to the park. This is the only entrance that is open year round.

You cannot imagine the view from our rear living room window and the picture will not do it justice but here it is....

There is no way that you can get the real image that this is. The valley between our window here and the mountain in the distance is a drop of probably 2k feet down to the Yellowstone river. Rafter's and kayaker's pass by on a pretty regular basis. Ant's on the water.... Heading away from this view, you climb another 1000 ft to reach the summit of the mountains above us. Beautiful....




This is Yellowstone lake. Hugh! We drove for at least 45 minutes around it before we got to our first turn off in the park.










This is the truck and the porta crib. Best campsite we've had since we left from a view standpoint!








This is one of our neighbors. There was him, a smaller buck and a doe. Not botherd at all by Forrest but a little nervous around me and K...... Eating the grass at a church......







This is a shot of the portacrib zoomed from across the river in Gardiner. Long zoom......









This is a shot of Gardiner from the road over the mountains heading towards Jardine.







We 'et here tonite. Damn fine cuisine here in the mountains. I had Salmon sompthin' er another and Karen had beef...... Good enough to make ya slap ya momma.... Pop, I can't reach her, can you hook a brother up? :-)





Damn.... wish I could do that........ :-)









Awright then........ These pics will in no way do this are justice. So you will all have to just come out here and see for yourself. I promise you, you will NOT regret it!

I'll have some stuff from Yellowstone tomorrow. Remember, It's a NATIONAL park... that means YOU own it. You owe it to yourself to come see it!

Love ya'll....