We finished off our day with a bear safari. We decided to drive the six-mile Blacktail Plateau road and saw one grizzly on Mt. Washburn (see photo at left) and five or six black bear on the plateau.
On the way back we saw the grizzly on Washburn again. This time he was walking along a ridgeline above the road. As we watched, a man started out after him with an absurd amount of photographic equipment including the World’s Largest Tripod. From where we were we could see the bear and the man as he lost sight of the bear. Griz lumbered downhill toward Total Oblivious Guy in a yellow shirt, having a peaceful moment, admiring the view of the valley below. As he crossed the road, breaks shrieked, doors opened and cameras blossomed from every window.
You can see the grizzly heading toward the road in the photo at left. Totally Oblivious Guy finally turned around, just in time to see a Massive Grizzly walking toward him, and what did he do? Pulled out his camera and started taking pictures of course!! Meanwhile the World’s Largest Tripod was still wandering clumsily along the ridge searching for the Grizzly. People get excited about bison, they ooh and ahh over elk in velvet antlers, they love to watch the wolves, but the grizzlies will always we be the rock stars of Yellowstone.
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