{"id":1668,"date":"2013-06-22T13:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T13:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2023-06-03T20:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T20:13:17","slug":"finally-we-saw-a-grizzly-bear-in-the-wild-and-she-had-a-cub-with-her-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"Finally! We saw a grizzly bear in the wild and she had a cub with her too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As we drove through Yellowstone yesterday on our way back from visiting another geyser basin (there are SO MANY here in Yellowstone!) we saw several cars on the side of the road and people out of their cars all looking in one direction.\u00a0 That’s a sign that there’s an animal nearby.\u00a0 Most of the time it’s one or more bison, sometimes elk and once an eagle in a tree (too far away for our camera to get a good shot).\u00a0 But, FINALLY today it was\u00a0a grizzly and her cub.\u00a0 They were about 2 football fields away, behind a river and in an area with lots of felled trees,\u00a0so we had trouble seeing them through the trees but we pulled over immediately and went to the crowd and started looking.\u00a0 Jeff got a few good pictures which are below.<\/p>\n

Of course, everybody else wanted to know what was going on too, and pretty soon the road was totally clogged with cars.\u00a0 Lots of people didn’t try to pull over, they just stopped in the road and asked what we saw and tried to see it too.\u00a0 Or, they would pull partway out of the road but not enough so cars could get past.\u00a0\u00a0Shortly some rangers came along with bullhorns and started telling people to get out of the road or move along!\u00a0 Luckily we got there early enough to get off the road and not be in anyone’s way.<\/p>\n

We were there about 20 minutes, hoping the bears would come out into more open land, and telling newcomers where to look to see them.\u00a0 It was fun to see kids when they finally got a glimpse of the bears!\u00a0 Several people with really professional looking camera gear went down into the marsh next to the road to get closer.\u00a0 They felt pretty safe because the river was between us and them and still didn’t get anywhere near the 100 yards the rangers say to keep between people and bears.\u00a0 They probably got some really good photos!\u00a0 We are satisfied with the ones we got!<\/p>\n\n