“Early Rising”
Quinn Moore
This morning I had a very interesting dream about school
bells and alarm clocks. During my extremely weird dream I realized the noises I
was hearing during my slumber were coming from my tent mate Andrew’s watch. I
was upset that I heard his alarm go off at an early 4:30 am. As I laid awake in
my sleeping bag, still drowsy, I thought to myself why on earth would I agree
to get up this early again! I thought I learned my lesson when the group left
Horn Field. Meanwhile I was still in my nice warm bag dreading the moment when
I had to get out of my warm sanctuary; I remembered why we all agreed to get up
this early. The whole group was looking forward to the possibility of seeing
grey wolves early in the morning. Even though it was very early, I don’t think
I have seen the group get ready so quickly! Once the vans were loaded the group
got on the road and headed to our destination. Once we arrived at our stop, the
whole group waited in the vans for about an hour hoping to see a glimpse of a
wolf. Sadly no wolves were present, so it put a damper on the groups moral.
After our depressing moment we got back on the road and headed back to camp.
While we were driving we saw a grizzly bear off in the distance running through
a field. I guess seeing a grizzly bear makes up for not seeing some wolves. Who
am I kidding it was an awesome sight watching such a big animal running through
the plain. Our next stop proved to be much more successful. It seemed like fate
intervened because lone behold a bunch of people were scattered all around
their cars looking at a pack of wolves! Some of the people had some high
powered spotting scopes, that we kind enough to let the group look through. Off
in the distance we were able to see an outline of five grey wolves feeding on a
carcass. A park ranger was present as well and he gave the whole group a
special interpretive talk about the wolves in Yellowstone. His name was Ranger
Rick, and taught the group with almost as much enthusiasm, as the group had
about wanting to learn about wolves. After our talk with Rick we got back on
the road to see some more amazing sights. We had several more breathtaking
stops before we arrived in Mammoth Hot Springs again. The group had about an
hour of well needed free time before our next scheduled interpretive talk. The
interpretive talk was very informative but not as exciting as Rick’s talk. After
the talk the group headed back to the campsite to start dinner. After dinner
and our daily debrief the group’s moral seemed a lot higher. The night before
the group had a serious talk about the group dynamics and the problems the
group faces. Today the group seemed to come closer together and our bonds
strengthened. As I lay here in my tent writing in this journal I am looking
forward to tomorrow’s plans. We are going to Old Faithful tomorrow and I have
been looking forward to seeing the geyser for some time now. I have been
looking forward to it because of an inside joke between my parents and I. So in
closing goodnight to all and I hope everyone’s day was as exciting and
educational as ours!
Roses
are red
Violets
are blue
I
don’t miss Roxanne
And
neither should you!
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