YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 8-11-11

We headed to Mammoth this morning and took the route across the center of the Grand Loop - the figure-eight-shaped highway that connects the different parts of Yellowstone.  We stopped at the Museum of the National Park Ranger and saw a cabin of a back country ranger and the building built in the early 1900's.   Our hike today was a 5.1 mile loop around Beaver Pond.  The elk were very much in Mammoth today and seventeen of them were right outside our hotel window.

I must include biker puppy and his Mom.  They are part of the huge biker crowd who are in Sturgis for a two week biker event.  There are 400,000 bikers there.  We've seen a great number of them in Yellowstone.  Does biker puppy remind you of anyone??  We had dinner and listened to piano music all the while getting to watch the elk.  At 10:00 PM they moved on, but....