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Today we left Mammoth and rode a snow coach into the park towards Old Faithful. Our tour guide Macneal has a great eye for wildlife. I grew up with my dad and uncle who taught me how to find wildlife. Being colorblind people always assumed a disadvantage for me, but when it comes to wildlife it helped me tune my eyes for movement. Often times during this trip I caught myself finding wildlife at the same time as our guide but man he seems to be in tune at a level I hope to some day reach.

Today we toured many parts. We saw many different geysers, mud pots, and other odd geological features of the park many with beautiful vistas.

During our trip we stopped at a warming hut to eat lunch and spoke with the local wildlife management staff. They told us about a new carcass just down the way from the warming hut. After we ate we headed out to take a look. We saw a coyote come in (in a picture below) to feed off of it. After about 15 minutes of watching we decided to leave. On the way out we heard about a wolf sighting in the area along the tree line close to the carcass. So we made a quick stop to check it out. Macneal spotted a single wolf in the distance. I got a few shots of him (see below). This was a young wolf in a pack of 8. Apparently he stays behind. This is a wolf pack that is brand new to the park. One that they knew nothing about.

So we had a very exciting day!

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Well I tried and tried to upload pictures but my phone was not having it.

Today we cross country skied, so most of the day was taken up doing that. I did get some good shots of 3 elk bedding down, and a few nice frozen waterfalls.

BTW, this was my first time to ever ski. So I am pretty sore. I am guessing the 60 pounds backup with all of my gear didn’t help me out much. Oh and I envy the photographer I met this morning. He had a 600mm lens with him and got some great shots of a wolf this morning. I am still crossing my fingers on getting a wolf shot.
UPDATE:
We are inside the park close to Old Faithful, still no internet connection but cell is much better. So I have uploaded pictures below

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Day 2 was awesome. We went to Lamar and saw a ton of wildlife. Check out the shots I got! Everything you see here is from my 7D and 100-400mm Lens. Jill was using the 5D MKII with a 24-105mm

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Ok guys, the first day here was not too eventful. We checked in, ate and drove around for about 30 minutes. So much to see. I have no idea if I will be able to upload every night because I am running my internet off of my blackberry and my laptop is taking about 5 minutes to process one 7D raw image. So here are a few shots from today. Enjoy

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I thought I would share this with others who have asked about albums.  Below you will see pictures of each spread. This album is a 12×12 Premium Leather with a total of 30 pages (15 spreads).

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