Yellowstone One
Thursday, September 20 took us from Grand Teton north about five miles to the South Gate of Yellowstone. The previous day in Grant Teton had been pleasant, if somewhat frustrating for the smoke from a nearby fire. Nothing prepared us for the grandeur that is Yellowstone. And it is not just mere beauty that captivates the First time visitor but the scale, the diversity of landscape. It seems as if whatever scenic beauty exists in nature exists here.
Our initial goal was to simply familiarize ourselves with the park, but it became impossible to just drive past some sites with the promise to return, we stopped and stopped again until we came to the essential Old Faithful geyser. Our first stop was at the Lewis Falls along the Lewis River which feeds Lewis Lake. Next came the rather spectacular Kepler Cascade, all of which primed us for the thermals and the geysers which came next. The weather at Old Faithful, rain and sleet mixed with wind made it a challenge, so we did not walk the complete loop, but we got the sense of the place. At some point, we will get back there.
From there we drove a circuit from Old Faithful east to Canyon Village and back down south through more geysers, stopping to visit with some bison by the side of the road, and back the south gate to our lodgings in Grand Teton.
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