Yellowstone Recommendations

I'm going to Yellowstone in about 3 weeks (and Grand Teton). I would assume that there will still be quite a bit of snow. Any recommendations or suggestions for techniques/locations would be most helpful. Thanks.

Suggest reviewing www.yellowstone-natl-park.com/index.html Ihave always found this site to contain usefull information with regard yellowstone -- good links to weather etc.

My friend and I were on a birding/photo tour of Grand Tetons and Yellowstone mid-May last year. We did get some good birding, but the weather was not the greatest for photography. It was raining with heavy overcast skies all the time we were there. I did get a decent shot of the Tetons across the sage fields in Jackson Hole with the peaks covered in heavy dark clouds, but precious little else.

 

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The rain was so relentless and endless that we just gave up after a few days and headed south to Utah, where the Wasatch did cough up some good photographs (as well as some dippers in the mountain streams).

 

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Be sure to go to Jenny Lake to view the Tetons up close. When we were there last year, the lake was still frozen: with the overcast skies and the low clouds covering the Teton peaks, I couldn't get anything really inspiring, but your weather luck may be better than mine.

 

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There was a LOT of snow still on the ground in Yellowstone. I suppose this year there will probably be even more.

 

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After visiting the Grand Tetons, I realized that until you see that part of the US, you've really missed out on something. The weather did nothing to dampen my sense of wonder. There was so much incredible scenery, I started to suffer from scenery overload after a while.

 

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Enjoy yourself!