Friday, January 23, 2015

I made it to Gardiner MT today. As soon as I got unpacked in the room, I called then went over to Doug's place to pick up the scope I ordered. It came in 5 boxes. After a bit of visiting, I took all the stuff and went into the park to put them together and see how it worked. Doug said that they hadn't seen many wolves that morning – just a few very var away.

The weather was all cloudy at the time, and the roads a bit icy. It wasn't really cold – in the high 20s. I stopped at the Hellroaring overlook. It has a parking area big enough for me to back the truck in so I could use the tailgate as a work table. It was pretty icy as almost all turnouts are around here.

I got it all together and spent the next hour fiddling with it and talking to people who stopped to see the view.

By this time, it had cleared, so I drove down into the Lamar Valley. The road was icy in the shady spots, but was clear in the sunny areas.

Of course, didn't see any wolves, in fact, the only interesting animals were a group of bighorn sheep just near the confluence of the Lamar River and Soda Butte Creek.

So, I drove back to town and spent the next 3 hours at a presentation by a woman who spent 2 months on Ellesmere Island – way up the the Canadian Arctic working with a BBC documentary crew filming wolves. She was the biology consultant for the program. It's part of a series called “The Hunt” and is supposed to air in October.