West Thumb Geyser Basin Yellowstone National Park

Vandaag vertrekken we uit het luxe Hilton na een uitgebreid buffet richting Yellowstone. Het is een lange dag door Utah en Idaho naar Wyoming. Idaho blijkt een echt landbouwgebied te zijn en doet wat denken aan Oostenrijk. We komen langs een toeristische omgeving bij een stuwmeer en gaan dan verder richting Wyoming. Via een canyon waar veel geraft …

We went to many sights in the park today and this time we exited the West Entrance to spend the night in West Yellowstone. We drove 10 minutes west from West Yellowstone so we could say we were in Idaho. At this time it was the shortest amount of time in any one state. We would later return to Idaho in our 2009 Canadian Rockies trip …

Georgetown Lake and Yellowstone synopsis of animals seen in the past 2 weeks.

All animals listed seemed to be in exceptional shape, healthy, and agile…

- 2 Doe Mule Deer – Georgetown Lake

· 2 Cow moose & 1 calf – Georgetown Lake

· 3 eagles – Georgetown Lake

· 1 Badger – …

Aufgrund aufziehender Regenwolken bauten wir am Vorabend unser Zelt wieder ab und schliefen im Auto. Seit langem war die Nacht nicht kalt, wir nächtigten richtig erholsam. Beim Aufstehen war das Wetter bewölkt und nach der Einfahrt in den Teton Nationalpark (südlich an den Yellowstone angrenzender Park) begann es leicht zu regnen. Wir suchten das …

Yellowstone was in my travel wishlist from a pretty long time and one fine morning we planned to visit this fabulous place. Yellowstone is a geological smoking gun that illustrates how violent the Earth can be.  Yellowstone National Park is made on an active volcano, with immense volcanic activity. This left Yellowstone with a …

Vandaag willen we zo veel mogelijk van het park zien dus zijn we om 8 uur vertrokken. Het heeft vannacht gevroren en dus nog altijd vrij koud. In het park is er een route die we kunnen volgen in de vorm van een acht. Op de weg van west naar zuid vinden we de meeste geothermische activiteit terug. Het park is ook bekend om z'n dieren, zo zijn er …

Yellowstone - our country's first national park. This had been numero uno on my "must see" travel list for years. The United States is a country so vast and beautiful but nothing was going to prepare me for what I was about to experience in Yellowstone. I had watched numerous documentaries on the park over the years and had read tons of magazine …

Today we drove about 170 miles. The weather was warm and very dry. Our lips are cracking in the sun and wind. The overnight forecast is calling for low temps. There is a wildfire burning directly to our south.

... ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 7. Lewis Falls info: http://gowaterfalling.com/waterfalls/lewis.shtml 8. West Thumb Geyser Basin info: http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/tours/westthumb/index.htm 9. Hydrogen Sulfide ...

... northward and made our next stop in the Mud Volcano area. The sulphur smell was much stronger here than in the West Thumb Geyser basin, it was obvious that we had entered the active caldera system. While the mud volcanoes are not particularly pretty and ...

... the East Entrance to the park from Cody. Our first venture out was to see Old Faithful but along the way we stopped at West Thumb Geyser Basin for our first glimpse of this hot geothermal area. We (I) was amazed to find steam coming out of the ground at ...

... of the beautiful views of the Grand Tetons. Then we moved on to see Lewis Falls and headed over to the west thumb geyser basin. After hearing about recently Grizzly activity and reading about the hike to the overlook of Yellowstone lake we prepped with ...

... scenic. The Back Geyser Basin has 6 springs, 10 geysers, 2 steam vents, 1 caldron, and 1 crater. As with the West Thumb Geyser Basin the smell of sulphur was everywhere. We walked in a clockwise direction starting with Emerald Spring and and ended with ...

... - makes hikes more interesting. So now it is about 6:00 and there is still 3 hours of sunlight left. So now we head to the West Thumb Geyser basin which is about 45 min. away. But on the way down, a ton of cars had stopped on the road and was checking ...

... new visitors centre there.  We entered Yellowstone N.P by the west entrance and our first stop was at West Thumb Geyser Basin. We joined a Ranger guided tour.  The Ranger was great and told us the history of Yellowstone amongst ...

... hike. We continued on and marvelled as the scenery began to change.  Our first view of thermal features came at West Thumb Geyser Basin.  We didn't see any geysers, but viewed the spectacular colors of the hot ...

... the road. The good news…we got a spot!! After setting up camp we headed out again to view another smelly geyser basin (West Thumb Geyser Basin) and then headed back up to the Lamar valley to see what we could see. Along the way we stopped to watch ...

... Trout. We drove through Lake Village and Bridge Bay on our way down to the West Thumb area. We walked through the West Thumb geyser basin and saw many warm pools with aqua, orange, yellow, green… colors- some pools quite deep and clear with ...