Jackson - January 3, 2017

I had the day off and Don managed to switch his day off so we headed to Jackson and were part way there when my phone rang and I had to tell work - Sorry!  The stars don't align to give us a day off together that often anymore so I'm not going to mess with that!

We hoped to find some Mountain Goats at Alpine and were able to drive slow and check the hillsides real good - and we found - - - Elk!

NOT what we expected!!  Sure - we know there's Elk in the area - just that as many times as we've done this we'd never seen any on that hillside.  Only Mtn Goats!  But not today.  

On to Jackson we go.  The town is always busy.  Lots of traffic.  This little Mule Deer (and one before her) were lucky to make it across all those lanes of traffic in the middle of town!!  Scary!

On to see the Big Horn Sheep!  We were lucky and found a few on either side of the road.

And one of the little ones got a few licks of our tire!

We grabbed some lunch and headed north out of town to check the Gros Ventre for Moose.  We had lots of luck "seeing" them!  Just none of them were close enough for photos.  

But out by Kelly there were some Bison near the road so we stopped to grab some shots. 
 

Sometimes you find an animal when you aren't even looking.  We'd stopped to use the restroom across from the Moose Visitors Center (which is closed) and when we drove forward to turn around - - - there stands a Moose!!

We figured she'd found some salt that they'd spilled and was licking it up off the snow. 
 

Time to head towards home and when we get back to Jackson we find some of the Elk have moved close to the highway near the Visitors Center so we stopped for a few shots of them.  

And that was our day!  One more shot - this was taken looking down part of Moose-Wilson Road.  Lots of snow and the trees hanging full of snow.  So pretty!!