Second picture zoomed in (2/5)

This is the other picture zoomed in. The elks in this herd are all grazing. It might not look like there would be any food for these big herbivores, but under that six inches of snow, there is still grass and the elks can get to it by using their hooves to move away the snow.

I rather wish that I’d been able to zoom in before taking this picture and would have loved to have been a lot closer because some of those bulls were huge. They probably weighed close to a half-ton. Still, it is a thrill to see this many, especially just before one of several major storms rolled through between the time this picture was taken and now. There are about six inches of snow in these pictures. Right now, eight days later, there are about two and a half feet of snow in the same location. Another snowstorm is also upon us.