Yellowstone II
Very quickly we have learned that what we plan and what we do often diverge. There are too many attractive distractions along the way.
Our first distraction was a small herd of elk. It’s fascinating to see what happens when animals show up, cars stop, traffic jams, word goes out to the National Park Service, and rangers or volunteers soon show up to manage the interface between animals and humans.
From the elk sighting, we went on to LeHardy’s rapids, the Mud Volcano, an other worldly grouping of hot springs, mud, and minerals and microbes that is , in truth, very hard to depict, you have to be there for the heat, the steam, the stanch of sulphur.
From ther we went along to the Brink of the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River and the South Rim of Yellowstone’s Grand Canyon.
At that point, the plan was to go back to Old Faithful for dinner at the Lodge. We did not have reservations and there was no room at the inn. I had planned for us to have dinner there, come out at twilight and get some dramatic shots of the geyser. Din’t happen. But I did get some twilight shots on the way back to the Headwaters Lodge where we are staying. It was a long, arduous day in which we walked almost seven miles and we collapsed in our room about 9:30, exhausted.
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