Lamar River

I spent weeks out in Yellowstone, out in Montana.

I was in Lamar Valley in winter.

I went and saw all these incredible hot springs.

I went to Jackson Hole.

These over snow vehicles were out there.

We then went up to Lamar Valley, which is completely stunning.

That drive to Lamar Valley was life-changing.

It's like heaven on earth.

Did that in the winter, drove back down to Jacksonville.

Yellowstone has countless opportunities to stop and admire valleys, mountains, rivers, and wildlife.

The Mount Haines area is one of the scenic landmarks in the western part of the park, while places such as Hayden Valley and Lamar Valley are especially well known for wildlife watching.

When driving through these landscapes, allow extra time.

You may think a journey will take an hour, only to discover that you've spent twice that long stopping to admire the scenery.

Sometimes the views from a roadside overlook are magnificent.

Yellowstone has countless opportunities to stop and admire valleys, mountains, rivers, and wildlife.

The Mount Haines area is one of the scenic landmarks in the western part of the park, while places such as Hayden Valley and Lamar Valley are especially well known for wildlife watching.

When driving through these landscapes, allow extra time.

Yeah.

Weren't lifers, but all along the Lamar River.

It was April-

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This week saw four state first records in the United States from four pretty wildly different circumstances.

First up, a tropical kingbird in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park is a first Wyoming record of this frequently wandering flycatcher.

Records up the West Coast as far north as British Columbia this time of year are quite common, expected, though they typically stay pretty close to the coastline.

Tropical kingbird is far less commonly seen in the western interior, but records from Idaho, Utah, and Colorado definitely suggest that this sort of thing should have been expected in Wyoming eventually.

But yeah, I mean, just masses of zebra.

And when I was in Yellowstone on our first, uh, road trip around the United States, I was in the Lamar Valley, and we were stuck in a bison traffic jam.

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And I, and I remember thinking at the time, "There's no way Grandma Joy's ever gonna see the great migration, but at least she has this." And that was just, yet again, one of a long list of assumptions I made that, that, uh, turned out to be untrue.

So our first time, uh, was 1976, we came here.

We went up to Slough Creek in the Lamar River, Labor Day weekend.

Maybe we saw two or three, four other anglers-

Wow