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Elk and Grizzly

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Only 7 miles from our campsite in Yellowstone was the famous Elk Carcass and Grizzly story that unfolded while we were there.

There was a 700+ Bull Elk that tried to get a drink from a small pond that ended up getting stuck in the mud.  After almost 30 hours from the first report the park rangers decided to humanely put the elk down.  Within a day a huge boar grizzly drug the elk carcass out of the mud and covered it with grass.  The Grizzly that the locals called Big Red then proceeded to  guard his buffet for the next 10 days.  He pretty much ate the entire thing in 10 days.  By the end of it, he had grained a ton of winter weight.  He was successfully able to defend his prize from several other grizzlies.  Every time I checked on him, he was always eating of sleeping on it.  Pretty cool to be able to witness.  There was so much more to see and do in Yellowstone that I didn’t hang out there for hours on end waiting for a fight or something more exciting to happen.

Look at his claws!

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Day 13: (Sunday 9/21/25)

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Day 13: (Sunday 9/21/25), Got up early and was out the door at 5:45 with a projected 7:05 sunrise.  Started off on Gros Ventre looking for more moose.  Found 7 total, 3 bulls, and 4 cows.  Headed to Moulton Barn to try and get a decent landscape without too many people in my photo.  Then I headed to Schwabacher Landing to try and get a landscape with a reflection.  Ran back to the camper for lunch.  Sharon and I had planned on hiking around Jenny Lake.  I was shocked by the crowds when we got there.  There was ZERO parking spots.  I circled the lot for 45 minutes, and it started to rain, so we headed back to the camper to cook a batch of chili and watch Da Bears play The Boys.  I’ll head back out for one more round of glassing for bulls (Elk or Moose).  The Bull Elk was last night, but I hadn’t posted him yet.

  

Moulton Barn

Schwabacher Landing

I have always been known for my wildlife photos, but I have been working hard on my landscapes.  I’m happy with both of these!  Tomorrow is another travel day to Salt Lake City, half way to Moab UT.

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Day 12: (Saturday 9/20/25) Big Four

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Day 12: (Saturday 9/20/25), Today was a down day.  Sharon has been such a great passenger princess through all this.  She said she really didn’t want to stare at anymore trees.  We had a leisurely breakfast, followed by couple loads of laundry.  An early lunch and then we headed to Jackson to shop and lay in some supplies.

The reasoning behind our Wild West Trip was: first, I have never been out here, second to hopefully capture a few wildlife photos, and third was to work on my landscape photography.  They talk of the “Big Four” out here.  I was able to complete that yesterday with my moose.  Here are my big four:

Bison

Blonde Grizzly

Bull Elk

Bull Moose

Bonus two mammals

Big Horn Sheep

Mountain Goat

In case you are just joining the adventures, here is the link to the entire trip.  www.kentjarrett.com/wild-west-trip-2025

I did slide out to scout tomorrow’s landscape photo locations and of course and really nice big Bull Elk got in my way.

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Day 11: (Friday 9/19/25) Tetons

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Day 11: (Friday 9/19/25), We broke camp and left Fishing Bridges in Yellow at 9:15 am.  Short down-hill drive to the Grand Tetons.  In fact, Vinny AKA Vin Diesel, my truck set a new record of 16.4 MPG!  The trip was 110 miles.  Got to Colter Bay RV at 11, and they wouldn’t let anybody in until noon.  We were forced to go to the visitor center to get our national park stamp.  Hit the gift shop and bought myself a nice hoodie and hat.  After we got the camper all settled, StarLink took a while, and I don’t have a great signal due to trees.  Sharon decided to take a nap, while I went scouting to get a lay of the land and hopefully find a Bull Moose!

BOOM!  The big four has been completed! (Bison, Elk, Grizzly, Moose). I also have 2 bonuses of Big Horn Ram and Mountain Goat.

Yeah, Full frame bull moose on night one, that takes some pressure off. 

When I hiked out to where the other 3 photographers were I still had the 2X Teleconverter on my 600mm.  I raised the lens and then Dang it, way to much glass.  All I could get was hit rack.  I then did something I have never done before, I opened the camera body and lens and removed the TC in the field.  Yikes!

Then the lady standing next to me, a local, said finally a full bull moose with the Tetons behind him.  DANG it again.  Had to hike back to the truck to grab the other body with my 100-500 to get that shot.  By the time I hiked back out there, he had laid down.  Can you find him? 

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Day 10: (Thursday 9/18/25)

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Day 10: (Thursday 9/18/25), Beartooth Highway

I headed out at 7:00 AM to check on the large boar grizzly on the Elk kill.  Then back to the campsite because today was a little bit of an inconvenience.  We are staying in Fishing Bridges RV (FBRV) inside Yellowstone.  I booked our reservations 1 year out.  They always sell out 1 year in advance.  I booked a 30’ site with 30-amp service.  Then in July Sharon and I bought a larger camper 36’ with 50 amp.  I called FB and they said sorry no 50-amp sites available.  I called every day for about 3 weeks to finally get a really nice 60’ ADA site.  I’m guessing about another 10 days of calling I was able to get a site for Thursday.  Which meant we had to be out of site one by 11:00 am and move over to site 2.  We knocked at out in about 45 – 60 minutes. 

We then headed the 80 minutes into Cody for lunch.  We headed up to Red Lodge to the start of BearTooth Highway.  It is supposed to be the most beautiful drive in America.  I was impressed.  We climbed to 13,900 feet.  Temps went from 79 at the valley to 54 at the top.  Drove it down through Cooke City and back into Yellowstone into Lamar valley.

Sharon was a real trooper 7 hours and 400+ miles of windshield time.

Tomorrow, we break camp and head to the Grand Tetons.  More adventures to follow.

When I got to him, he was sleeping and was covered with a blanket of frost.

After about 30 minutes he finally looked up.  I guess according to some guys in the crowd, two other grizzlies tried to move in yesterday afternoon, but he ran them off.  He is not giving his buffet just yet.  I just couldn’t allocate time to hang on with him, which so much other things to see and do!

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