This morning, my in-laws didn’t go with us. They were tired and wanted to take a day off.
We headed across the northern part of the southern loop, towards the fishing bridge and lake.
We stopped again in Canyon and asked about bison sightings. Thre had been none so far that day, but we were heading where they had been seen the day before. Not too far down the road we saw the bison – hundreds of them. One was only 5 feet off the side of the road.
We went to Lake, ate lunch, then went to the trail leading to the Natural Bridge. At last out of the car and walking on foot, we hiked the short one-mile trail to the bridge and climbed up it. Up one side, we saw a marmot.
Heading back along the same route there were even more bison on the road. We got stopped on the road when one of them decicided to (ever so slowly) cross the road in front of us. Even the big mini-van wouldn’t win a fight with one of these massive animals.
We thought about staying late in the fishing areas, as grizzly bears had been seen the last few days in the evening, but there was no realistic hope we’d see one and we decided to go back to town.
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