More Scenes from Yellowstone's Geyser Basin
From Mammoth Springs and Yellowstone Village, we trekked southward on the western park road,
and quickly came upon an rock slide area that was like a cemetery full of monuments.
Just beyond the rock slide area we went through a scenic pass between two mountains with a spectacular bridge that is built out from the side of the rock.
Continuing on we soon enter the Geyser Basin area that makes Yellowstone so famous. The geysers
appear everywhere and on every kind of surface, including flat land, valleys, lakes, and hillsides.
This particular hillside had hundreds of steaming vents at work like a big commercial kitchen range
with 20 burners and a boiling pan on each burner.
The park road is a panorama of beauty no matter what direction you are driving.
Windshield time is like visiting an art gallery.
The largest concentration of geysers, mud pits, and sulpher cauldrons are surrounding
the Old Faithful area. The variation of colors is amazing in those natural hot tubs. Crystal clear ponds of azure blue, violet and orange boiling water, that look bottomless. I can remember as a 5 year old being terrified of falling into one of these and never being rescued. My dad probably warned me that would
happen if I got too close to the edge of the boardwalks.
Jeannette always looks good in the great outdoors.
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