Derik, Devin and I decided that we wanted to go to Jackson
Hole. (Surprise, right?) I feel like
Devin and I are there all the time.
Which is fine. One day maybe we
will retire there. Haha. What a
beautiful weekend!! Everyone has really seen all of my posts from each trip that
we go on, so it really isn’t anything different. This time though we slept at The Virginian
Lodge. It was…alright. Since there were three of us, we needed two
beds. WELL…. They were two full
beds. Devin and I got awfully close that
weekend. But of course, I didn’t mind. :)
Friday night, when we pulled into Jackson, we went directly
to Moose-Wilson road. Boy am I glad we
did! We got past Teton Village and into the park and what do we see?? THREE
BEAR!! A mama and two cubs! Ohh they were soo cute! Derik was trying to find it
and he looked out his window and there it was! He could have touched it. We had to keep driving per the park ranger
because it was moving. Dev flipped the
car and we went back. Most of this trip
I rode with my head sticking out the sunroof.
I could hear the bears in the tree’s but couldn’t see them. I finally spotted them and D turned around
again so we could hopefully get some pictures.
This time the ranger STOPPED us.
RIGHT THERE BY THE BEARS! She thought that they were going to cross the
road again so she made us stop. We had
10 glorious minutes to sit and watch/take pictures of these cute little
creatures. See picture below:
It got dark pretty quickly and of course when you go to
Jackson with us, you know you won’t get much sleep because you’ll be awake at
the butt-crack of dawn. Which we
were. 6 AM came quite early for me. That’s earlier than what I get up for to go
to work. We have been following a blog –
bestofthetetons.com - This guy takes
pictures every day during the summer/fall in Jackson Hole. He puts where he finds the animals and what
the animals are. We’ve been following
him, follow Custer. Custer is a
beautiful bull moose. Saturday morning
we got up bright and early and away to Gros Ventre we went! (it’s a road..and
its French..so its pronounced “grow-vont” – we were told that we were saying it
wrong…) We found 3 moose right off the bat.
It was early and we were still half asleep..so Derik see’s them and was
like, ‘are those cows?’ haha it was funny.
You had to be there. Devin could
see more moose closer to the road..so we decided to head there very first. (I didn’t get a picture of the first 3 that
we saw..) There he was! Mr. Custer himself!
He was so beautiful! We saw him with 2 cow moose. We stayed there for quite a while just
watching him. We moved on to
Schwabacher’s Landing. There were more
moose along the Gros Ventre raod, couple calves with their moms. We got to
Schwabacher’s and walking down there when a nice guy told us that there were 5
moose down about a ¾ of a mile. We got
there just in time to see their cute little bums. Haha.
Derik saw all five, Dev saw 4 and I saw the bums of 2 calves. We were told that there was a mom and a calf
trying to come into the territory of another mom with 2 calves and she wasn’t
having any of it. So they chased off the
mom and calf. We really didn’t see a
whole lot more during the day.. A lady told us that the 5 moose have been there
for the last 5 days. So we knew exactly
where we would be the next morning! We
really didn’t see much more until that night.
We saw one more bear. But like
the first 3 moose, we only saw it for a second.
We drove back and forth on Moose-Wilson road just trying to find
it. Dev and I saw its cute little face
but then it disappeared. We did some
shopping. I got a cute little salt and
pepper shaker that sits behind a moose and then of course I added to my cookie
cutter collection. I got a moose face!
It’s adorable. Moose cookies will be
coming soon. Sunday we found Mr. Custer
again. This time he was with three cows
and we were able to get really close. Oh
my goodness I just love moose so much. I
can’t wait until we have our own house then I can add little moose accent’s
here and there. We went back and found
the 5 moose at Schwabacher’s Landing. We
got there in time to see the mom with one calf go and get a drink. Beautiful reflection of her in the
water. Ugh. Finally, after mentally crying and throwing a
tantrum, I agreed to go home. I love
Jackson.. and of course we are going back, in October! -09/06/2016
For more pictures, check out my facebook album here
CUSTER-THE BULL MOOSE
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