7/29
This morning we got up pretty early, after a full nights rest, and headed up through Grand TetonNP to Yellowstone. Yellowstone is everything you ever heard it was, everything you ever gained it to be, and more. Such a remarkable variety of landscapes in such a small area. A truly remarkable national treasure.
I was wrong to generalize Wyoming as a big brown state; Yellowstone proves that is not the case.
The vastness of the park is breathtaking. I sound like some kind of nature video.
I think we took about a 800 pictures between the three of us; another fresh panorama opens up at every bend in the road.
Muriel is silly.
Despite many signs that warned against walking on geothermally active areas, you'd be surprised how many tourists just walked about anywhere. There was even one "hot spring" that had the bones of a young bison that fell through the earth's surface and died.
Firehole Lake Spring, I think.
Muriel cutting up at Mammoth Hot Spring.
We headed further north.
The weather was dramatically changeable.
A Yellowstone tour bus at a spot where the road undercuts a stone cliff.
This was the tallest stand of Lodgepole pines we saw- apparently untouched by fire in recent times.
Bison do wander onto the road; he came back onto the road after a park ranger scooted him off a few minutes before with his SUV.
On the way home; an amazing day.
