Yellowstone Park Hotel West Yellowstone

Der absolute Hammer...auch unser zweiter, dritter und vierter Tag im Yellowstone waren traumhaft, unbeschreiblich, spannend und dieses Mal hat sogar das Wetter mitgespielt. Wir haetten locker 1000 Fotos machen koennen, haben uns aber auf 200 beschraenkt :-) Wir haben Hunderte von Bisons (Amerikanische Bueffel), unzaehlige Elche, ca. 10 Koyoten, Springboecke, Gaense, Voegel, Squirrels, etc. gesehen. Die Elche hier sehen zwar eher wie grosse Hirsche aus, aber ...

Yellowstone rocks! So was cooles haben wir noch selten gesehen...Wir haben heute erst einen kleinen Teil des Parkes besucht und sind bereits riesige Fans. Unglaublich, was die Natur hier zeigt. Man koennte stundenlang einfach dastehen und zusehen...und es gibt wahnsinnig viel zu sehen!<br><br>Leider ist seit gestern in Montana der Winter eingezogen, weshalb wir heute morgen zuerst unser Auto freischaufeln mussten...Krass, von ueber 30 Grad in Hawaii zu 0 Grad in ...

Old Faithful didn't disappoint. <br><br>Saw a beautiful bison at sunset. <br><br>Good<br>riding but the traffic made it more exhausting than necessary.<br>Apparently Yellowstone National Park gets 30,000+ visitors PER DAY!<br><br>More to come later... just wanted to post pics now while i have high-speed connection.

... and stained that color and brilliant others because of the chemical changes caused by sulfur, steam and boiling hot water bubbling up from the earth below.  Several outcroppings of rock reminded me of our Mono Lake tufa towers closer to home, and it was uncanny how much other parts of the landscape reminded me of Mount Whitney in our Sierra Nevada mountains.    Of course, we are ...

... refined Jack Links. I might get onto that black stuff a bit later, but this would do for now. A few miles in and we struck tourist gold - A grizzly bear and the biggest bear jam we had seen. Lots of very, very silly people out of their cars taking pictures. Even some real boneheads holding babies in one hand, the camera in the other and trying to navigate uneven pathways in the presence of a grizzly bear. made for some very good viewing. This poor ...

... followed the Salmon River for over 50 miles and Chrissy scanned for sight of a leaping Salmon (it is that time of the year). Sadly the Salmon were as elusive as the Moose and Cowboys. We entered Ranch Country and were amused by the names they had: Broken Wing, 6X, Big Horn, Crazy Canyon, Goose Creek, Lost River, 3 in 1 and many more, all of which looked like they were straight out of Bonanza. It was a superb drive and we met plenty of characters on ...

... the paying process. (It appears that it must be cheaper to import labour that cannot speak American!) Lunch done and head out to watch for the Infamous Old Faithful. Rick headed down for a front row seat (naturally) and Earnie and Karon hung back from a distance. We waited and waited and a few (around 7 misfires and around 1 hour 42 minutes from the last blow, "there she blows!" it was a great spectacle and it lasted for quite a time as it gave different heights and ...

... said it's "huntin" season - camouflage gear everywhere -pulled up at the lights the other day beside a pick up whose passenger was hugging his cross bow and arrows on his knee - a little unnerving! Well the post did finally arrive, collected early for us, so at 2.30 we had a decision to make. We usually leave around 10ish, so this was very late and bearing in mind we had about 180 miles to go, it was a toss up between a night in Wal-mart ...

Today was Kelly's birthday, so we got up early, she opened her gifts and we took her to breakfast. It was a beautiful day and we ventured out a little, but tomorrow we start exploring the park. After breakfast, we went to the IMAX movie, "Yellowstone." Kelly took the boys to a bear and wolf exhibit afterwards while I went to workout. Later in the day they went back to the exhibit ...

... was in a cabinet I built behind the drivers seat so I could operate it by reaching behind the back of the seat but it was concealed behind a curtain. In response to the colder weather I had to do some maintenance on my heater. The heater controls no longer worked and I had to put on a petcock in line with the heater hose and would turn it on and off manually by opening up the petcock or closing it. After putting on a new ...