Yellowstone3

Today was on and off rain in Yellowstone, tomorrow may need to switch to long pants.  Hope it clears up for the Perseid Saturday night. In the meantime we like boiling mud.

Yellowstone 2

After geysers yesterday, we hit the east side of the park , Yellowstone Canyon.  We also were up to 8800' so we could see the caldera rim clearly. When this puppy blew 630,000 years ago it must have been quite an event. Finished the day with a country four piece band at the campground, a fine Thai dinner at Lighthouse Restaurant, and an evening thunderstorm. That's okay, we were done for the day and the Moose needed a bath. The wax job in June is long gone after 3,000 mile plus.

Yellowstone

We have moved to Yellowstone. Today was the primary geyser area at Old Faithful. The weather was too excellent, we are not getting any cloudy sunset pics. Guess we will have to settle for algae and bacteria in the hot pools.

Logon Pass GNP

Out of the seven days at Glacier, we had one cloudy day so we had to go to the pass.

Two Medicine

It cooled down to the low 60s today and was overcast so we went to Two Medicine.  Lots of flowers and the waterfalls were great. Also got to see several moose and a very spry 80 year old professor from New Hampshire.

Many Glacier GNP

We spent a week exploring Glacier. By day seven we were hiked out and spent our last afternoon sitting in the woods at Swift Current Lake. The first sketch is Karen's and took 2.5 hrs. The photo is Keith's and took less than a second.

Avalanche Lake

Today was a drive across the top of Glacier (twice) and a four mile hike to Avalanche Lake.  A beautiful day (49-75F).  The rangers were busy at Avalanche looking for a hiker last seen five days ago. He was alone and there is a bear and cat in the area. Due to construction, I was able to drive from Logan Pass to the loop this morning with zero traffic. We enjoyed 10mph and several stops with no people. The 1,000' drop was magificent.