Just when the action was getting started, it was time for us to leave. We started the day at Pebble Creek to check to see if what we thought was the Lamars through the trees was still there. It was. We moved on to Slough Creek, where we patiently hunted the hillside for 969F. To John's excitement, he noticed two elk looking intently to their left. He panned left with the scope and there she was! She charged them, they charged back, and she charged again. The elk cow that had charged her went back to the other one, and she headed toward the dens.
I had a look through the scope and followed her to the sage den. She went inside, came out, shook, and went in again. She didn't come out again, or so I thought. While I was helping John find her with the camera, which doesn't have as much zoom as the scope, I looked through the camera view find for a couple of seconds, and in that time, she popped out and headed up the hill. We didn't discover this until we got home the next day when John viewed the video he was taking the entire time. Unaware of her escape, we sent word to Rick M. and then stayed to watch the sage den for over an hour until Gabriel and Daniel took over.
Video of 969F
Heading out of the park, we stopped where Jim and Bobbie had the Wapitis at Geode on a dying elk. Unfortunately, some tourists chased after them (which is not permitted) and the wolves disappeared out of site. Jim got some great pictures, and we just missed seeing them and their beautiful white alpha female.
We will return to the park for sure in February 2020, but we'd like to come back late summer or early fall, as well as Christmas.
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