Yellowstone Trip
2003

After a backpacking Trip in the Grand Tetons, we took a side trip up to nearby Yellowstone Park.

This is Old Faithful. Although there are other more spectacular geysers nearby, this one remains the most famous due to its predictable regularity and frequent eruptions.

These two are more colorful and because they do not spew so high, you can get close enough to look into them. The blue water on the left denotes temperatures well above boiling. The orange on the right is algae growth that lives in the warm wetness around the geyser.

I took these photos just to show we were really there.

All through the many miles of this vast park, active geysers abound. There is a concentration in the area around Old Faithful, but driving throughout the park you can spot steam rising in many spots through the trees.

Above-right, you can see the boardwalks that were erected in some areas to keep visitors on a proper path and out of danger.

This is a mud geyser. A huge bubbling mass of boiling gray mud.

This one is called The Dragon Cave. If you stand in the right spot, the escaping gasses sound just like the roar of a dragon coming from deep within the cave.

Buffalo are roaming freely around the geysers, here a mother and calf.....
...... and in meadows as you drive through the park. This is the remnants of the herds the Native Americans once hunted all across the plains and that were devastated by the white man and almost driven into extinction.
	The spotting of an elk was a real treat indeed! We will have to come back here to backpack one day. back to the Teton 2003 Trip

 

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