Yellowstone National Park - page 3

                                                                                                                       

On Fall Break (+ 5 days) of 2012, I went with my Uncle Bob to do some bucket list items... Wind Cave, Jewel Cave, Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands, Devil's Tower, and Yellowstone... here is some pictures telling the story...

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Would like to see this blow! <grin> More neat mineral deposits... The entire time we were on the trail, this geyser about a mile away was blowing the whole time! About 1 1/2 hours of time...
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The ravens here are giant! (and expect you to feed them!) At another location there is so much water coming out of the geysers, that there is a running stream of waterfalls into the creek nearby. Giant pools about a block in size.
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Finally we got to the area I wanted to see.. the boiling mud... Not a good picture but I do have a movie below that shows them popping.
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Sign This is a fumarole... it is dry but the air coming out of it sounds like a jet engine... movie below. Boiling mud...
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And some of the fumes... ahhh... sulphur! Nothing like it!! One of the waterfalls at the park. Yellowstone got clobbered by a GIANT fire about a decade ago...
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The new trees are trying to fill in but it will be years until they are up to what was there! Bob on one of the park trails.
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A white mud pot... cool... Looked like boiling milk 1/2 way though the park we saw this grand animal...
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Right by the road like the others.... Then all of a sudden (about 1:30 p.m.) the sky turned dark and it started to rain.... We decided to turn around and get out of Dodge before the continental divide passes got closed....just as it started to snow...
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Bob's CRV has 4 wheel drive and it was used.... we saw lots skids in the roadway on the way out. We were one of the last cars out before they closed the pass... whew!!!
                                                                                                                       

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Last updated: 10/26/12