After Chloe died in February, Becky let me know she wanted to eventually spread Chloe's ashes in various spots in Yellowstone. I told her I would drive her whenever she wanted to do this.

Shortly after Chloe's celebration in Missoula in June, we started making plans and settled on a four day- three night visit in early August. Although we brought our scopes, we never touched them. This was not a visit in which we'd try to see wolves or any other critters. This was just about Chloe.

Here is my summary for the record.

Day 1 – Tuesday 8/6 Bozeman to West.

Today I saw: A pair of elk along the Madison, two cormorants sunning themselves at 7 Mile Bridge. Geese on the creek at Fountain Flats. A coyote at Grand Prismatic and a poor, dead duck in orange runoff.

Day 2 – Wednesday 8/7 West to Gardiner over Dunraven.

Today I saw: lots of geese along the Yellowstone, a few distant bison and a few elk in Hayden. Some mule deer at Upper Falls overlook and an osprey at Artists Point

Day 3 – Thursday, 8/9 Gardiner-Gardiner via Dunraven then out to Beartooth and back

Today I saw: chipmunks and a red squirrel at the Buffalo Paddock and lots of bison in Lamar

Day 4 – Friday, 8/10 Gardiner – Bozeman via Lamar to Baronnette and back

oday I saw: a moose at Floating Island Lake, pronghorn at Slough lots of bison in Lamar