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Sunday, June 26, 2016
Secondary Blog - Lesson Learned
Just a short little secondary blog to show that one thing I learned is to NOT wear a hat to Yellowstone National Park! And I didn't photograph the first 2 or 3 I saw because I didn't realize it was going to be a "thing"!
Montana and Yellowstone National Park
I recently went to Montana for business. It was my first time visiting this beautiful state. After my appointments on Tuesday, I drove 90 minutes to one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen...Yellowstone National Park. I wish Eric had been with me. I wish I had had more time to spend exploring. I wish I had seen a bear (from a great distance!) It was a quick trip but I hope to someday go back and see more of this beautiful national treasure.
Here are some photos from that trip. Enjoy!
Overall, Montana was a little too slow-paced for my tastes. But Yellowstone was amazing and I hope to go back! I had never experienced hot springs before so I was amazed at how HOT they were...I got a facial just standing near them and the smell was so strong. I saw lots of deer but no bear or moose...I see a camping trip in my future. In an RV and NOT a tent...you best believe!
April 25, 1805
I ascended the hills from whence I had a most pleasing view of the country, perticularly of the wide and fertile vallies formed by the missouri and the yellowstone rivers, which occasionally unmasked by the wood on their borders disclose their meanderings for many miles in their passage through these delightfull tracts of country. . . . The whol face of the country was covered with herds of Buffaloe, Elk & Antelopes; the deer are also abundant, but keep themselves more concealed in the woodland. The buffalo Elk and Antelope are so gentle that we pass near them while feeding, without apearing to excite any alarm among them, and when we attract their attention, they frequently approach us more nearly to discover what we are, and in some instances pursue us a considerable distance apparently with that [in] view.
Here are some photos from that trip. Enjoy!
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| Along the drive from Billings to Bozeman |
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| Yellowstone River along my drive |
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| Along the drive from Billings to Bozeman |
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| Yellowstone River along the drive from Billings to Bozeman |
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| Antelope greeting me upon entering the park |
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| Inside Yellowstone National Park |
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| Mammoth Hot Springs - Lower Terrace |
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| Mammoth Hot Springs - Lower Terrace |
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| The smell of sulphur was strong! |
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| It looked like ice crystals and water was trickling down |
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| Steam rising off the terrace |
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| Liberty Cap |
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| Another spring in the Lower Terrace |
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| Mammoth Hot Springs - Upper Terrace |
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| Beautiful colors of the Upper Terrace |
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| Minerva Terrace |
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| The Gallatin Ridge |
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| Electric Peak in the distance - 10,969 ft |
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| At a pull-out along the winding roads of the park |
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| Nypmh Lake - another pull-out along my drive in the park |
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| Black Sand Basin |
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| Black Sand Basin |
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| See the steam rising in the distance?! |
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| Emerald Pool |
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| Cliff Geyser |
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| Rainbow Pool |
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| Rainbow Pool |
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| Sunset Lake |
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| Stunning Colors of Sunset Lake! |
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| Lower Geyser Basin |
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| Celestine Pool at Lower Geyser Basin |
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| Silex Spring in the foreground and Bacteria Mat behind it |
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| Silex Spring looked bottomless! |
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| Red Spouter |
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| This guy was SO loud and sounded like it came from the depths of hell! LOL |
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| Missouri River in Great Falls |
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| Sway bridge crossing over to the falls |
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| Great Falls discovered by Lewis and Clark now provides power to Great Falls, MT |
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| These flowers were EVERYWHERE |
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| Backroads of Great Falls |
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| Backroads of Great Falls |
Overall, Montana was a little too slow-paced for my tastes. But Yellowstone was amazing and I hope to go back! I had never experienced hot springs before so I was amazed at how HOT they were...I got a facial just standing near them and the smell was so strong. I saw lots of deer but no bear or moose...I see a camping trip in my future. In an RV and NOT a tent...you best believe!
April 25, 1805
I ascended the hills from whence I had a most pleasing view of the country, perticularly of the wide and fertile vallies formed by the missouri and the yellowstone rivers, which occasionally unmasked by the wood on their borders disclose their meanderings for many miles in their passage through these delightfull tracts of country. . . . The whol face of the country was covered with herds of Buffaloe, Elk & Antelopes; the deer are also abundant, but keep themselves more concealed in the woodland. The buffalo Elk and Antelope are so gentle that we pass near them while feeding, without apearing to excite any alarm among them, and when we attract their attention, they frequently approach us more nearly to discover what we are, and in some instances pursue us a considerable distance apparently with that [in] view.
—Meriwether Lewis
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