10.10.2010

Bison and Elk and Geysers, Oh My!

In between moving-in and working, we found time to take a trip up to Yellowstone National Park. It was a wee bit cold at 51 degrees, so we only walked around the Old Faithful area of the park. But the short trip did not disappoint.


As any national-park-goer knows, a bunch of cars stopped on the side of the road means that there is an animal around. Sure enough, within perfect view of a bridge were six Elk feeding in the meadow.


A quick trip out of the car gave us a gorgeous view of Lewis Falls.


We walked up with perfect timing to see Old Faithful go off. It was not like last time when I stated that it was "lame" after it seemed to stop halfway through the show.


One of the springs around Old Faithful. The colors in the pools are absolutely amazing.


After watching a herd of bison play in the creeks in the middle of a trail, and watching them then cross the trail incredibly close to some people, we caught an up-close look at the herd.


We stopped at Lewis Lake on the way back south through Yellowstone.


The Kepler Cascades are only visible when going south through the park. We totally missed these falls that were right beside the road when we were heading to Old Faithful. But when we did spot them, we climbed down some rocks to get a better view at the shoreline.


Once we were back in Grand Teton National Park, we spotted an entire field of bison. There must have been more than a hundred. We weren't sure if they were wild bison or domesticated. Just seemed unreal to see the numbers of them that we did at one time.

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