Steen V. Mogensen
email: mogensen@bellsouth.net
Yellowstone NP
Spring 2006
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Yellowstone in March
In March 2006 Ward Sener and I went to Montana to meet with Dr. Bob Garrott,
Kelly Proffitt and Mark Johnston (See the Antarctica pages for more about
these guys). The purpose was to discuss the changes they wanted to the
equipment we are building for the projects in Antarctica.
Dr. Garrott is also running a number of projects in and around Yellowstone
National Park and we were invited to come down to meet some of the
researchers involved with these projects in the Madison Junction area and in
Madison Valley.
We drove through the Northern Range and later went down to the Madison Junction. Saw lots of wildlife and had a great visit with the individual research teams.
Yellowstone is the worlds first National Park. It was established in 1872
and covers an area of almost 3,500 square miles.
The park has one of the largest calderas in the world, 45 by 30 miles, and
there are more than 300 geysers, with Old Faithful being the best known.
Every year more than 2,000 earthquakes are registered in the Yellowstone
area.
Go to Gallery1 to see some of the pictures from this trip.
Being so close, we had to go down to Yellowstone and spend a few days in the park. We drove around the Northern Range again, went out to the West entrance, saw Old Faithful and spent the night at the campsite at Madison Junction.
While at Madison Junction, we stopped by the research team and spent a morning with Claire tracking Wolves and Elk.
We saw lots of wildlife on this trip including Elk, Bison, Wolf, Coyote, Grizzly Bear, Pronghorn, Moose, Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goat. Not to mention a lot of smaller animals and birds. All in all a great trip with lots of good memories.
We also had a chance to meet up with Vince Green, who was on the Antarctica team in 2005 and we spent a night with friends in Gardiner, right at the entrance to the national park.
Go to Gallery 2 to see some pictures from that trip.