Finally, we were on our own time - we could be out all day and not have to worry about anything. We decided to drive further along the Beartooth Pass Highway, WY. Since we only made it a short way before, we tried not to stop anywhere we had stopped already. It is amazing how fast you can travel 38 miles if you're not stopping every 1/4 mile for pictures. We did stop one place for a second time to watch some skiers on the slope. I hope I'm never as crazy as these guys. I kept imagining them starting an avalanche or skiing right into rocks.
The dog seemed to navigate the slopes with ease.
Above the tree line (where the oxygen level is too low to support trees) there's an amazing variety of miniature flora that was so colorful, we just kept on taking pictures. It became a challenge to find a shot that included the most color.
I was fascinated by the micro-scape. Nothing you see is over 2 inches tall (except the rocks).
The little blue flowers are only about 1/4 inch in diameter.
The green velvet covering the ground consists of the tightly packed flower-lichen-moss-teeny fern combinations.
Roadside wildlife (taken from inside the car).
I took a lot of brackets to process later for HDR - I think it was worth the effort. These are some of my favorites.
We believe these are Pilot (left) and Index (right) Peaks near the Wyoming/Montana border.
We made it all the way into Yellowstone National Park. We stopped at one roadside picnic area and soon noticed the ground was moving - there were hundreds of ground squirrels and they were in constant motion.
We were a bit worried we might be caught in a storm, but it stayed all around us and we never saw more than a few sprinkles.
We could see storms all around us.
Red Lodge is a quaint little town that we didn't explore. It will have to wait for the next trip through this area since it was sprinkling.
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