Yellowstone

Day Something. Time doesn’t matter out here.

The last blog ends with us going out to a national forest to camp for the night. Although a national forest is generally a huge area, this one was hard to find. We actually ended up camping on private property, but the people around the area didn't care and let us stay the night. We started a fire and cooked up some tasty soup and mac and cheese. It was maybe the best cooked-over-fire-food ever made. Then we drank some keystones and broed out for a while around the fire. When we woke up the next morning we cleaned up camp and headed back for Yellowstone. There was a big traffic cluster almost as soon as we got into the park. Turned out there was a wolf out in a field that everyone was stopping to watch. He was too far away to take pictures really, but it was still pretty cool to see him.

We traveled down to the campground we wanted to get a spot at but it was full so we had to head back up to Indian creek, which is far north of everything we were doing that day. We got our campsite and checked out the hot foreign girls two or three sites down from us before heading out for the day. We went south to Norris geyser basin and saw some geysers, which are basically just big pools of boiling colorful water I guess. That's a pretty bad way to describe it cause it’s actually a really cool sight. After that we drove around to the upper and lower falls of Yellowstone, which are big waterfalls that the Yellowstone River flows over. The river also created the grand canyon of Yellowstone, which we obviously had to take a free climb up. Just kidding, that would be impossible. After the falls and canyon we headed back to our campsite, filled up our flasks, and got to work for the night.

Woke up today at 6:30 to 31º weather. Awesome. Packed up camp in the frozen tundra then headed down to another campground. We got a site for real this time and went on to see the sights for the day. This day started out with us being the luckiest people in the world. We drove down to old faithful and sat down only to see her go off about 3 minutes later. Then we biked ourselves over to morning glory pool. Morning glory pool is a spring with bacteria living in it that makes it look like the morning glory flower. The colors in the pool are incredible. The full effect of the pool has been lessened by dumbass travelers throwing stuff into the pool and plugging up its underground source.

Our appetite for biking was not quelled by this short bike to morning glory pool so we headed over to a much longer trail and biked up and down it. There were some decent sights on this trail. The coolest part of it was seeing two bald eagles flying around over a creek. Along the bike trail was a turn off for fairy falls so we decided we would walk down the path. The fourteen-mile trek turned out to be worth it. But really it was only a mile and a half. The temperature around the fall dropped about 15 degrees and the mist from the water pounding into the rocks around the fall was awfully chilly. Next stop was grand prismatic spring. This was as incredible as everything else out here. There’s really no other way to describe this stuff. The pool is just like most of the other geysers, with incredible colors and boiling water. This pool had some of the most pronounced colors of all the springs or geysers. Check out the pictures. Then we tried to drive back to our campground for the noche but we had a few stops. First there were elk on the side of the road. I was pretty surprised by how huge they are. The ones we saw were all females and basically just look like overgrown deer. Very overgrown. The next stop was for a motorcycle accident, which we didn't see but the traffic jam lasted about an hour and half. And now were back at the campground. Oh and we also saw two grizzly bears on the ride over.
So that makes the list up to wild black bears, grizzlies, buffalo, bald eagles, a bobcat, rattlesnakes, deer, elk, wolves, river otters, ravens, hawks, rodents.