Tuesday, September 27, 2016

YELLOWSTONE – GEYESER BASINS ON SOUTHWEST SIDE

After 5 days of rain or cloudy skies much of the day, we finally had a clearer day forecast, so we took our first run into the park, I had planned to drive the lower loop the first day and the upper loop the next. But about 20 miles of the upper road loop was closed for construction, so we spent all of our time on the lower loop. Pictures are taken in the Canon A 720 IS camera

While in the park we saw lots of bison, elk, 3 mule deer  and even a coyote.

 

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Our first stop was at Midway Geyser Basin.   

 

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Outflow from Grand Prismatic Spring into the Firehole River.

 

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Our next stop was at the Upper Geyser basin, home of Old Faithful. Here is the crowd awaiting the next scheduled eruption. It occurred close to the time predicted.

 

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This boson was feeding closer to Old Faithful than spectators were allowed. He did not react to the eruption, except to lie down and roll in some dust.

 

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Here is the eruption we awaited. The water actually erupting is masked to the steam or earlier pulses of the eruption.

 

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Castle Geyser was emitting a little steam.

 

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Geyser Hill is surrounded by a boardwalk.

 

 

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Kepler Cascades, just east of the Old Faithful area.

 

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Nice blue pool in the West Thumb Geyser Basin short walk.

 

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When I took this shot across Yellowstone Lake I thought that the snow capped mountains were the Grand Tetons. But after looking at a map, they appear to be peaks in the Absaroka Mountains, with several  around 11,000 ft. or more.

 

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I took the short walk to the Artists Paint Pots geysers. The boardwalk continued up the hill at the left, but my mild COPD dissuaded me from tackling it.

 

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Another nice pale blue hot spring with rising boiling water.

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