Winter in Yellowstone
Friday 31st January – Sunday 16th February 2020
Tour Cost: £3,750 (Plus Flights) Fully
Booked
We
begin our 2020 season with our very popular tour to Yellowstone
in the winter. This will be the 25th tour we have organised to photograph
Yellowstone in the winter, and it continues to offer some of the
most exciting and unique photographic opportunities to be found
in the USA. As this tour booked out almost immediately Photoventures
has decided to operate one final tour in 2021.
Our tour visits
the Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole area before making
our way north through Idaho to West Yellowstone. Here we join our
own snow coach and spend five full days exploring many aspects of
the park. During our five days we will visit numerous great locations
giving everyone the opportunity to see Yellowstone gripped in winter
conditions. While we are in this section of the park we will see
many of the famous basins and thermal features. We will also visit
places such as Tangled Creek, Tire Pool and Hayden Valley, areas
made famous by images from previous Photoventures tours. We will
also visit Mammoth and the Northern section of the park along the
Lamar Valley, where we may spot the grey wolves that live here.
Having led so many trips to Yellowstone you can be assured that
we will be visiting the very best locations for photography during
the trip.
Yellowstone
in the winter is unique with its sub-zero temperatures and steaming
hydrothermal features. The park also has very limited access confined
to over-snow vehicles such as snow coaches and snow mobiles operated
by specialist companies. This results in very few people accessing
the park during these cold winter months. In addition to this, the
animals usually become more approachable as they seek to survive
the harsh winter conditions, and this usually results in more encounters
with bison, coyotes and other park wildlife. On previous tours we
have also experienced close encounters with the grey wolf pack as
they fed on kills and this offered some spectacular images for our
clients. Whilst no one can guarantee sightings of wolves we are
able to offer you something special during our stay in Jackson.
Here you will have the option to visit the National Elk Refuge,
home to as many as 8,000 wintering elk. This is a unique opportunity
to view hundreds of majestic bull elk as they congregate together
on the refuge, something infrequently seen in the wilderness and
if you’re lucky you may get close to the resident bald eagles
that live here.
Perhaps one
of the greatest places on earth, Yellowstone has so much to offer
the photographer at all times of the year. However in winter it
is very special indeed with its extreme temperatures, rising steam
and open waterways there is nowhere quite like it. To visit Yellowstone
at any time is a real experience but to be able to capture the winter
conditions, frozen wildlife and boiling pools is like no other photography
you will find. Yes it may be cold, you have to wrap up warm and
look after your cameras, but these difficulties will soon be forgotten
as you immerse yourself in this very special photographic location.
Detailed
Itinerary
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