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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming….Day 1

We were not sure if any park would beat the scenery of the Tetons but we were willing to give it a try in a few more northern parks before we get snowed out.  As the Tetons and Yellowstone are only a literal “Yellowstone’s” throw away from each other, why not check out Yellowstone?  Of course, as the ranger at the visitors center said “Old Faithful is a must as it is on everyone’s ‘chore’ list”.

In our minds we figured to fight off thousands of visitors to see Old Faithful but this crowd was easy to deal with. Very cool eruption indeed!

We actually prepped for this wonderful sight by having breakfast at the Old Faithful Inn.  A really cool log structure with all sorts of neat architecture etc.  It is billed as the largest log structure in the world.  When we were done, we found that we could sit on their porch and watch Old Faithful so we would not have to deal with the throngs of folks getting off the tour buses.

Who is that guy not wearing hiking/biking clothes?
Oh what would we pay to have this clock on our mantle at home. Oh yeah, we don’t have a stone chimney to put it on!
Laurie is relaxing a bit before we head out on the hike du jour.

The hike of the day was to Fairy Falls and Imperial Geyser:

We are not sure why this is called Fairy Falls but my is it pretty. As it is a 12 mile round trip to see it there were not many folks there.
No, that is not a really long selfie stick. There were a few souls who walked the 6 miles in to check it out and they volunteered to take our picture..
We even dipped our hands into the warm creek that is just downstream of the Geyser. The water there was hot but not scalding anymore.
The path from Fairy Falls to Imperial Geyser was lined with Autumn colors.
We had Imperial Geyser all to ourselves. It erupted for a few minutes, stopped, and then after a few seconds of silence, it would erupt again. Not as powerful as Old Faithful but there was no one else there to see it!
We decided to walk this path up a huge, steep hill only to find out it wasn’t a people path at all. It turned into a herd path shortly after cresting the top. After walking on it for a while we found some bison resting and having lunch near a lily pond.
How many bison can you see?
On the way back we stopped to take a picture of what is called the Grand Prismatic. One can see it from the road so that is where all the people were today. The colors are absolutely amazing…..and I am shade colorblind!
We found a heart-shaped geyser! (All I need to do is Photoshop an R&L into the center of it)  Check the clarity of the water. The hole in the middle is actually very deep.

 

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