Old Faithful Yellowstone National Park

Ani ráno nebyl v kempu žádný ruch, čili jsme přemýšleli, co všichni ostatní lidi dělají, když kolem nás stojí spousta stanů, spousta aut, ale lidí je vidět ráno i večer málo... Asi 16ti mílová cesta od kempu ke známému gejzíru Old Faithful trvala několik hodin, protože cestou byla spousta …

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If so you will remember I mentioned a cunning plan to solve the problem of all that driving for Kevin when exploring Yellowstone. Well, my solution was to Glamp ... I know that a few of you may know or guess what Glamp / Glamping is, but for those of you with no idea - it's short for …

So today was our first day of exploring Yellowstone. We started with Old Faithful. Such a fascinating place. Geysers bubbling all around the trails. Steam coming up from holes in the earth. Could have spent all day just watching them erupt. Waited for a while watching Beehive because the Rangers thought it may erupt in the next two hours. It is …

Uitslapen doen we waarschijnlijk pas de laatste week in Las Vegas, weer om 7 uur eruit!
Na het ontbijt op naar West Yellowstone, daar wilden we vandaag de Old Faithful en eventuele andere geisers bekijken. We zijn gisteren aardig verbrand, dus vandaag toch maar ingesmeerd, iets wat we tot nu toe nog niet hadden meegemaakt:-)

Toen we …

Der heutige Tag hielt überraschende Highlights bereit und entschädigte uns für die letzten, nicht ganz so erfolgreichen Tage.
Zunächst ging es auf dem Highway 20 immer gen Osten durch hügelige Prärie.
Zwischenziel war das National Monument "Craters of the Moon", von dem wir uns nicht allzuviel versprachen, da der Reiseführer gerade mal eine …

Day 17

I wake up and realise that the 2nd part of our honeymoon has just started. As far as I'm concerned we can spend 2 more months here and I don't think I would get bored. Doubt that my wallet can handle that though.

Anyhow, after the usual "packing - loading the car - both verifying the lodge separately"-routine we go check …

This morning was Old Faithful. We arrived in time to hike around to the back side and shot the geyser back lit. It is amazing to think this geyser has been going off for all these years with such force and predictability. After the show with Old Faithful we spent some time taking macro shots of the patterns in the bacteria mats. At one spot there …

After eating breakfast and checking out of the Homewood Suites in Jackson, we started the drive up to Yellowstone National Park. To reach Yellowstone from Jackson, you must drive through Grand Teton National Park. The admission is $25 per automobile for a 7 day pass which covers both Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. Once we entered the …

We took the road from Mammoth Hot Springs to Old Faithful. There are many geyser basins along the way. Old Faithful Geyser is the world's best known geyser because of its fairly regular eruptions - about every 90 minutes. We saw hot springs, fumeroles, hot pools and paint pots along the way. Roadside forests are mainly lodgepole pine, but there are …

We had to get up at 5am and drive to Lamar Valley in Yellowstone Park, as that's the best place to spot animals. We didn't see anything for a while but eventually, after 8am, we spoke to a man with a very powerful telescope, who had spotted a Grizzly Bear in the treeline, about a mile away. It was very exciting and I got a good view of it sitting …

We awoke early freezing cold again! We got up early and headed for Yellowstone, the campsites are allocated the same as Glacier National Park, on a first come first served basis. They also don't have hook ups, hence the generator.  ...

We raced to the site because an old man's bladder requires attention. Three minutes later, Old Faithful went off. Talk about a stroke of luck. Caught the eruption in sequence for you (and only ...

... is thermal activity, geysers, thermal springs, boiling mud and more. The highlight of Yellowstone is its geyser country, beginning with Old Faithful. The park rangers have a noticeboard predicting the approximate times of the regular geysers, so ...

... (this was a treat for us Floridians!), snow sledding down a steep hill near Sylvan Pass, the wildlife, Old Faithful, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone (especially the hike to the brink of the Lower Falls), Lamar and Hayden valleys, Yellowstone Lake and ...

Yellowstone here we come! Drove the 2 seconds down the road to Yellowstone to see Old Faithful! On our arrival the crowds were building so we waited. No-one knows exactly when it will errupt, and everyone kept getting excited everytime it sputtered. We ...

... 3) Pictures: http://smu.gs/OXiMka We arrived in West Yellowstone, Montana, just outside of the west entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Our plan was to find a campground inside Yellowstone, but they were all full. Most campgrounds get booked up very ...

... that didn't have any guardrails and the only way I felt calm was if I myself was doing the driving.  We stopped at Old Faithful right around lunch time and discovered that the next geyser would be sprouting in a about an hour so we figured it ...

... , some deer and elk.  But what was truly amazing were the geysers, hot springs, and mud pots.  Yes, we did see Old Faithful and some others.  There are steam puffs all over the place from the hot springs.  And boy are they hot....it ...

... . Some of the pictures are incredible and some of the things we saw were just fantastic so this will be a good blog to read! Yellowstone National Park is in large part an active volcano. This I did not know until we visited. In a lot of places we visit, ...

Ok Yellowstone, first national park in the world and arguably the most famous...again it wasn't something I was that bothered about. Not that I didn't want to go, just wasn't something that factored in my decision to do the TransAmerica tour... ...