Flight over Yellowstone

These are some photos of my flight over the park earlier today. I was tracking Cutthroat Trout for a busy biologist, and managed to snap a few amazing shots in the process. I am just as thankful for the jumbo zip-locks I brought along as I am for the scenery.

Post-flight, and less a pound or two (breakfast revisited me, twice), you can see there isn't much room for more than two people in this thing! 

Steve, the trusty pilot, looks for creatures to photograph 

Grebe Lake from above--headwaters of the Gibbon River 

Wild kingdom right below us--we saw this bull elk on our way up the river, then on our way down saw a bear jump in the water after it. They danced for a while, with the bear eventually giving up (and after circling them half a dozen times, my stomach had the same idea). 

Serpentine waterways of the Thorofare 

Wolves frolicking around the upper Yellowstone River 

The shadow of the plane created this rainbow "hole" in the mist 

Thorofare region of YNP--reminded me of Glacier Park though 

Mist in the mountains 

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone 

Upper Falls--looks like a postcard, doesn't it? 

More Yellowstone

A few more pics of my grayling expeditions, and the occasional successful catch.

Go team grayling!  

Sweet thermal action--not antifreeze 

Grayling near Norris--doesn't he look happy? 

Grizzly and Wolf tracks--made the night before we hiked this trail.