Category: Yellowstone
Sun 27 Aug – Bunsen Peak to Grand Tetons
We had woken the last three mornings with it being quite cold, very unlike the mornings before we had arrived in Yellowstone. This morning we set off for a walk before it got too warm and initially I was not prepared to part with my hat or jumper. The walk started gently….. but got steeper…
Sat 26 Aug – Mammoth
We started our day with a waterfall, Gibbon falls. We then drove on toward Mammoth Hot Springs, but the temptation of a collection of springs called ‘Chocolate Pot’ springs was just too much to ignore, and proved well worth the stop, the rich collection of browns on this spring were stunning. We heading across the…
Fri 25 Aug – Yellowstone
Having camped a short distance outside the east entrance to Yellowstone, we still had to redo the climb over the mountains from the east entrance, looking down on the clouds below and the descent back to the lake. We did this early in the morning hoping to secure a place to camp in the park,…
Thur 24 Aug – Crossing Mountains
We set out from Buffalo, still heading west, and the land is reasonably flat but there are hills in the distance That’s not Yellowstone yet, those are the Big Horn mountains, seen here from a town called Tongue River… Soon we were climbing those mountains, with the plain we had just covered from Buffalo far…