Waterfalls Yellowstone


Sunday, July 14, 2019

I am going to start today’s blog with a short ‘rant’. I continue to be astounded by the need for everyone to insert themselves in all of their picture taking. I spent some time today watching this phenomenon. People would walk up to some beautiful piece of nature, glance at it, turn their back and take a ‘selfie’!  No one seems to truly appreciate the stunning scenery. No one takes the time to appreciate just what ‘Mother Nature’ has to offer… and on this adventure that is a lot.  Sue and I will have taken thousands of pictures by trip’s end and we will struggle to probably find 10 pictures that we are in…. why would we spoil such beauty with our ‘ugly mugs’?  Enough for now!

Now that is out of my system, I can say that today was all about waterfalls… Sue is still smiling… and it has nothing to do with the wine… at least not yet.  The interesting part was that we only planned one…we saw three. After hiking just shy of 3 miles we came to Fairy Falls.  Fairy Falls drops 200 feet over a cliff.  We could hike within 100 feet of the base and enjoy the spray… needed it to keep the mosquitoes at bay.  On our way back we hiked up to an overlook of Grand Prismatic Hot Spring.  It was worth the climb…despite the people taking selfies… enough!

This afternoon we decided to drive to another area of the park up to Mammoth Hot Springs.  On the way there, we found two more waterfalls.  Gibbon Falls plunges 84 feet and then we came across an unnamed falls in the Golden Gate Canyon.  And to top off the day, we had some spectacular views of more of Yellowstone’s thermal features.

Distance Traveled = 170 km.  Wildlife Sightings = Chipping Sparrow, Cowbird, Great Blue Heron, Red-tailed Hawk, Osprey, Tree Swallow, Deer, Buffalo, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Chipmunk.



Fairy Falls


Gibbon Falls


Golden Gate Canyon Falls


The 'bridge' in the Golden Gate Canyon


Grand Prismatic Hot Spring


Mammoth Hot Springs - Upper Terrace


Mammoth Hot Springs - Upper Terrace

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