A full week since my last post, but a combination of frantic activity and lack of electricity made it inevitable.  Here’s a summary of activities since we last chatted:

Wednesday:

• Woke early drove into Yellowstone.
• We see Bison and Elk in Lamar Valley
• Went to the backcountry office in Canyon and got permits for an overnight spot at Grebe Lake for Friday night
• Secured a campsite at the coveted Norris campground
• Toured the all the major Geyser basins except Norris – Monument, Midway and Old Faithful as well as Fountain Paint Pot
• My favorite spot, Artist Paint Pot, is closed for a boardwalk rebuilt
• Attend Ranger campfire talk on the lives of Bison
• Attempt to repair leaky air mattress
• Cynthia and I forcefully befriended by Chris, the 10-year old Colorado boy from a nearby campsite
• Buy firewood and build an anemic campfire

Thursday

• Wake up on a flat air mattress.  No park stores have a new one (should have bought it in Teton when I had the chance)
• Tour Norris Geyser Basin
• Drive through Mammoth.  Cynthia unimpressed after a day and a half of thermal features
• Swim in the Boiling River at the designated spot where a hot spring meets the cold river
• Showers at Roosevelt Lodge – I think we were supposed to pay for this, but no one charged us.
• Buy fishing license, flies, bear spray at Canyon Sport shop. Also buy 6 wt fly line marked down to an irresistible $5
• Do some fishing on the Gibbon River near camp with my back-up rod.   Bison bull comes out of nowhere and walks within 25 yards of me when I’m trapped in a bend.  I walk away avoiding a sure goring.
• Fish are rising, but not to my stuff.

Friday

• Hike 9.6 miles from Norris to Grebe Lake campsite 4G5 through lots of burned forest.
• Set up camp.  Mosquitos are biblically oppressive
• Fish and actually catch fish – 3 Fluvial Arctic Grayling.
• Cynthia builds roaring campfire that barely helps keep mossies away
• Tent not attacked by bear during the night

Saturday

• Wake up, decamp, walk back the way we came, arriving in 4 hours.
• Both of us are seriously blistered
• Lay low rest of the day staying near camp
• Checking out Museum of the National Park Ranger
• Fish the Gibbon some more, but the fish aren’t active
• Go to ranger talk on Grizzly Bears
• Burn rest of wood in campfire

Sunday

• Wake up, decamp.  On the road by 8:45am
• Leave through East Entrance, turn on cell phone

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