My camping trip to Yellowstone National Park September 2009
My first night was a nightmare. I got to the Mammoth Hot Springs campground about nine in the morning found a nice campsite, set up the tent and headed right out for some sightseeing. That was my first mistake because I didn't pump up my air mattress and get my bed ready as I would usually do before going anywhere. Late in the day I found myself standing at Old Faithfull about 150 miles from my campsite. To make a long story short or shorter at least, after a few more mistakes on my part I left myself trying to get back to my campsite after dark and in a thunderstorm, oh if life only had a rewind button. But because it doesn't I ended up taking a wrong turn, getting lost and not getting back to my campsite till 11:30 at night. Much to late to make noise by digging the air mattress out of the truck and starting the air pump so I just grabbed my sleeping bag and unrolled it on the floor of the tent for the night. Needless to say you take a four year older then dirt bag of bones, and lay it on the hard ground, the said old person gets no sleep, no sleep at all! Not to mention the fact that I had a visitor about three o-clock in the morning just outside my tent, it was a bull elk bugling for a mate. I don't know how big or how close he was to my tent, I decided against sticking my head out of the tent to see just how big or how close he was. Elk after all are just a dumb beast and they get even dumber when it is their breeding season so I thought if I stuck my head out he would just see all that cute with no antlers and I could come home from that camping trip a much changed man. The next day was a different story I spent all morning walking around the lower tiers of the Mammoth Hot Springs, the upper tier I left for another trip. Early afternoon I went back to the campsite to grab a nice, much needed three hour nap. During the rest of the trip I saw a few big bull elk, many female elk and more bison then I could count. All of this and more can be seen from The Grand Loop Road that runs through Yellowstone National Park. It's a loop so I guess I should write ''around Yellowstone National Park.'' As usual there are pictures from this camping trip posted below
Bison
Elk
Mammoth hot springs
Pictures from all around Yellowstone National Park,the hot springs, boiling mud pots, some nice views of Yellowstone Lake, the Yellowstone River and more.
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