Cow elk, downpour.

Went into a favorite valley over the past three days. On the way in it was approaching 80. On the way out, a wind driven downpour with little hope of relief — in fact, the snow level was dropping lower and lower as I left. It's tough to get good pictures in a driving rain. Gore-tex or not, water runs down your back and your sleeves. I have a system where the dry stuff stays in the tent, then I wear the wet stuff outside. You keep the wet stuff on one end of the tent and the dry on the other. But when it rains this hard, it's tough to keep the water out, because you're so damn wet yourself. I actually had a permit to stay another day, but figured I would have had to hole up in the tent and then hope the weather got better. It didn't. It rained all last night again and looks pretty black out there right now, even though the sun is creeping through the clouds. Still, I got some pretty good images. Photographing elk in Glacier Park is a challenge. The herds leave the confines and get shot at by hunters, so they're very wary of humans. It's not like Yellowstone where they walk down the sidewalks. Still, trying to make good pictures of elk is always fun. Even in the rain.