Jake Peterson’s Blog

I always enjoy a good drive just looking around. Today I kind of stretched that a bit, I drove 400 miles looking for wildlife, on the same road. Why you might ask? Well I was doing some scouting for the Yellowstone Base Camp, one of the many different base camps that my Dad puts on each year. This happened to be a coyote that my Mom and I saw over by the Madison River inside the Park. Couldn’t figure out what the heck he was doing, kept walking back and forth in the road, like he was checking both sides for something to pop out. Well at least he was photogenic, although not the greatest shot.

A couple of days ago Tyler and myself went out into Bozeman and shot main street at night. It was the first day of snow that night.

You can see the snow coming down in this one.

After a marvelous day driving down and a lovely stay at his grandparents house, Tyler and myself were looking forward to the next day. Saturday we went out hoping to find some critters. The skies were overcast and it was slightly raining, so anything would’ve been nice. Unfortunately we only saw one Moose cow out at Oxbow Bend.

The way back home we went along Antelope Flats Road, and at the time hoping for some Antelope or Bison. In the final two mile stretch of the road we saw hundreds of Bison crossing the road and even a few butting heads together. There was also  a few that scratched there head with their hind legs.

We left Sunday having to go back to school. Along the way back we saw the usual Elk, Bison and Pronghorn, but we also saw a Coyote pack taking on a group of Antelope which was fun to watch and one wolf in Yellowstone. The trip was fun and even though we didn’t see nearly as much wildlife as we wanted too, the short weekend adventure was killer.

This past week my buddy Tyler, the guy shooting in the image above, said we should go down to Jackson, Wyoming for the fall color taking place and hopefully some critters, i.e we want to see some freak n Moose! The drive was spectacular lots of fall color through Tetons, but we saw no Moose. We lucked out though no rain and great clouds the whole day. In fact, Tyler just started his own blog. If your interested check it out at www.blog.tylermillerphotography.com

This was just a place we pulled over and hiked a couple of feet into the woods. Not a bad spot. Can’t wait for tomorrow.