This sub-adult grizzly was walking in the Lamar Valley along with its sibling and mother when it briefly paused to stand up and look around at its surroundings (mainly sagebrush and a bunch of photographers).
Early one spring morning, I was driving through Lamar Valley, and pulled over to see what a handful of folks were looking at through their scopes. Turns out they were looking at a grizzly bear and her two cubs way up on a hill, at least a mile away. Way too far for any kind of photos, so I kept on driving in search of other opportunities. A couple hours later, I was approaching the same pullout to see dozens of cars pulled off the side of the road. I was told a mama grizzly and two cubs had just crossed the road, and immediately I was upset at myself for not waiting longer to see what the three way off in the distance had planned. I pulled over, disappointed that I'd just missed the family crossing the road, but I was redeemed when they proceeded to cross two more times over the course of the next hour or two. At one point, they meandered through the sagebrush between the river and the road, when one of the cubs stopped and stood tall, looking right in my direction.
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