Becky and I get a good night’s sleep and head out from the Super 8 at 8:45.

A light drizzle is falling but it stops by the time we reach Blacktail Ponds. The skies remain cloudy for most of the morning though.

We see no Wolf project cars at Nature Trail so I guess the Rescues are elsewhere. We continue east.

No one is at Hellroaring. We hear a report that the Junctions were seen early this morning from Boulder traveling west. They went out of sight and have not been seen for a while.

Uh oh, looks like our wolf luck may have run out.

We go back to the big ski lot and look for the bear. Alas, she is not out today.

We scope the area for wolves but find only elk and bison.

Becky wonders out loud where Calvin and Lynette might be. I suggest we head east to try to find them.

We drive east and end up finding Calvin, Lynette and Sian at Footbridge. And they have wolves!

Woo hoo!

They are watching bedded Mollies!

Apparently, Bob L found them this morning traveling east south of Picnic. People followed them as they moved along the tree line and into the Old Druid rendezvous.

Calvin says they ended up here, at the eastern edge of Chalcedony fan, bedded on a low knoll near a large Douglas Fir.

From this angle the area is below the K Meadow. I can see five gray wolves on the snowy knoll and a single black bedded below the group on the flat.

I suspect the black is the uncollared female. She often gets pinned by 1411F so she often tries to avoid that treatment by bedding separately.

I don’t see the other females (1411F and 1090F) but Calvin says they are likely just out of view.

I am also missing a gray but Calvin says they saw all 9 arrive in this spot earlier.

Once more, I marvel at our luck in finding wolves to see so late in the morning. Chloe’s influence is really with us on this trip!

The sky remains cloudy but the day has warmed anyway. While waiting for the occasional “head up/change in bedding spot” activity, we pass the time chatting with our comrades.

The black female does eventually climb up the hill, and join her pack, but still at a bit of a remove.

I eventually see 1090F, identifiable by her two-tone coat when she rises, stretches and then re-beds out of view.

Around 11, Becky and I take a break to drive up to Round Prairie to look for moose (no luck). I go a bit further up to Thunderer where I show her the two peaks where I saw the mountain lion pair back in January.

We return to Footbridge and spend another hour watching sleeping Mollies with our friends, then head back west.

On the way, we see two coyotes, some mule deer and more bison.

We stop at Dorothy’s to check the eagle nest, and I find one bald head sitting inside it.

We see the Junction crew at Hellroaring. They tell us their wolves are not in view, and are most likely in the trough.

Back in Gardiner again we stop at Wonderland for an even earlier dinner, then return to the motel to begin packing for our departure tomorrow.

Today I saw: bison, coyotes, mule deer, elk, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, 7 of 9 Mollie wolves, and the spirits of Allison, Richard, Jeff and Chloe.