Hiking on Rescue Creek Trail with Greg

The weather is getting better lately, though we've had snow and rain.  There is no such thing as spring in Montana.  It's either summer or winter, feast or famine, busy or lazy.  There is never anything that is in-between.  Yesterday was a little cold, but it was a pretty good day.

Greg is going to go to his anniversary party in California next week so we figured that we should hike in Yellowstone before he goes on his trip.  We went in his truck to the Rescue Creek trail head, just inside Yellowstone National Park at the North Entrance.  From there we walked along the trail about three miles past Rattlesnake Butte and turned around when we got to Turkey Pen Peak.  From there we turned around and headed back.

Along the trail we saw a lot of bison and pronghorn.  Some of the pronghorn didn't mind our presence at all and allowed us to take pictures of them while we were only 20 or 30 feet away.  For those of you who don't know, pronghorn are a little skittish and tend to run when they see anything nearby.  These guys can run 70 mph (that's not a typo) and are the second fastest land animal after the cheetah.  Therefore they're the fastest animal in North America.  Their eyesight is so keen that they can see objects two miles away.

A pronghorn buck grazes in front of a herd of bison.

The Black Canyon of the Yellowstone can be seen from our vantage point on Rescue Creek Trail.

Turkey Pen Peak