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Mommas and babies

These pictures were taken in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. Can you imagine having a baby as big as this bison baby? The momma bison never let their babies get too far from them.

The prairie dog babies were getting big, but still needed their mommas and liked to pester them.







This momma turkey had her "hands" full.
Those little turkeys scattered all over when they saw us, but eventually she got them back together.

North Dakota

After leaving Canada, we drove across the long, long, long state of Montana on Route 2 to North Dakota to Theodore Roosevelt National Park at the town of Medora. This park is dedicated to the president who started the U.S. Forest Service and our national park system. Roosevelt said "I would never have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." It was there that he developed his interest in nature and conservation. The park service has worked to return the land in this national park to the way it was when Roosevelt lived there. We saw herds of bison, wild horses, prairie dog towns, and wild turkeys. The scenery is that of buttes, canyons, grasslands, and valleys. You can picture cowboys riding the range, and imagine how rugged life must have been back then.

The Canadian Rockies

We spent five days in and around Banff National Park in Alberta. Awesome doesn't begin to describe it! One of our favorite days was driving up the Icefields Parkway to Peyto Glacier where we took a hike through the woods that took us high above a beautiful glacier lake.

EB has 33 Banff pictures on his website, so be sure and click on the link above to see more.

Glacier Update

Yesterday was our best day yet at Glacier National Park! We got up at 4:30 am so we could get into Glacier National Park before the holiday crowds. We arrived about 6:30 and started up Going to the Sun Highway. While we were still down at the bottom, we passed a guy riding his bike up the road and then we saw a black bear! So we parked the car a little way up from the bear to be sure the biker made it past the bear. He sure was excited about seeing a bear on his bike! Then the bear walked up the road right past our car!

When we reached Logan Pass at the top (35 miles of winding road going up, up up), the parking lot was empty except for . . . a herd of big horned sheep! The visitor center at Logan Pass sits right at the Continental Divide. We hiked up a trail through snow and we were the only people up that high so early in the morning . . . at least for a little while. We felt like we were alone on top of the world. We saw marmots. After that we took another hike where we saw 16 big horn sheep in a pasture and momma mountain goats with baby goats! The wildflowers are all blooming here now and we saw fields filled with Glacier Lillies. After eight hours we headed back to the motorhome and that was our best day in Glacier National Park.


Sunrise and moon set in Glacier National Park.