July 3rd
The most amazing and out of this world day!!!
The Road To Yellowtone National Park:
Left Cody, WY and headed towards the West Entrance to Yellowstone National Park
View Cody, WY to Jackson, WY in a larger map
The road to Yellowstone was beautiful but it was no match for the most out of this world scenery within the park...
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| Road to Yellowstone... |
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| Road to Yellowstone. |
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| Fire Fighters Memorial |
Throughout my drive in Wyoming it is obvious that forest fires are a defenite threat and prevelant. Even here in Tahoe you can see burnt mountain sides where just trees with no limbs are left stading even 10 years later. The same has been true in Wyoming
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| Notice all of the trees have been burnt.. and notice the first things to grow back are low lying plants and grasses |
Entering Yellowstone
On of the first things I encountered when enteringYellowstone was a traffic jam...  |
| This was not the one causing a traffic backup... This Bison was resting next to a bubbling mud pit |
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| Yellowstone Lake in the background... Burnt trees in the foreground |
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| Bubbling Mud Pit |
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| "Dragons Breath" this was continously letting off some steam. All of the characteristics of Yellowstone are caused by the Voclanic activity in this area. Yellowstone erupted three times but I believe the last was over 640,000 years ago and prior to that it hadn't erupted for over 3,500,000 years ago |
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| Lower Falls- Waterfall on the Yellowstone River Notice the yellow colors of the rocks due to sulfur |
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| Zoomed out view a small geyser. Notice all of the colors. Some are caused by bacteria that can live in the high temperatures and other colors are caused by certain minerals and elements |
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| Zoomed in on geyser These areas smelled like rotten eggs (Sulfur Dioxide) |
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| Water flowing from the hot spring and geyser |
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| Zoomed in view of the water flowing. The different colors are due to different types of bacteria that can live in different temperature ranges. Notice here that they are living together which is because at this point the temperature of the water is where both "colored" bacteria can live |
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| Zoomed out- notice the 2 geysers in the background |
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| Zoomed in on the geyser |
I'll be adding more details to this but wanted to atleast give you an idea as to how amazing, inspiring and thought provoking this area is....
Leaving Yellowstone...
Next stop Grand Teton Mountains and Jackson, WY
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| Bear on the side of the road |
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| Beautiful Sunset leaving the Tetons... & yes I'll be driving in the dark again. Saw 6 more deer ( 3 of which almost crossed the road right in front of me) |
