On Wednesday I wrote the leaves hadn’t appeared on the aspens. Since then we’ve had a couple of days of warmth and sunshine so this morning they popped out. I don’t remember seeing the leave pop out overnight before.
Our arrival in early May this year is the earliest we’ve migrated here. I fear this current warm spell is the springtime equivalent of Indian Summer, a brief respite in an otherwise cool-and-damp season.
In a couple of days we’ll take a run up to Grand Teton NP for an afternoon’s sightseeing. We hope to catch sight of the famous mama grizzly known as 399, she has quadruplet cubs born a year ago which are now nearly as big as she is.
399 is something of a legend among Yellowstone/Tetons oldtimers. She’s older than most, crafty, successful and thought to hang around semi-close to people to keep male grizzlies from killing her cubs.
As apex predators, grizzlies fear nothing but other grizzlies, and people if they’re wise, Not all are wise, they kill a couple of people in MT and WY every year and normally are then killed for doing so if they can be tracked down.
