| The Norris Geyser Basin. There are more trails that go down amongst the geysers but I didn't feel like making the trek. |
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| Steamboat Geyser. It can go days to years between eruptions. I wasn't about to wait. According to a website that tracks these kinds of things, it erupted two days before and five days after I was there. |
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| This fella was scratching himself on that post. |
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| This is called The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. This part has lots of trees. |
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| This part does not. That is the Yellowstone River down there. |
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| In 1870, explorers stood in awe as Mud Volcano spewed mud into the treetops, shaking the ground with each eruption. This day, all it did was bubble and smell of sulphur. |
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| I asked earlier who named all the things in the park. The sign nearby Dragon's Mouth Spring said that it was named by an unknown visitor around 1912. With the steam coming out of the cave, I could imagine a dragon living in there. |
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| You kind of have to take pictures of the bison whenever you can. It's not like you see them wandering around your neighborhood. |
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 Yellowstone Lake, the largest freshwater lake above 7000 feet, was a little frozen. Meanwhile, back in Nashville the high temperatures were in the 90's. |
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| See, I'm not the only person who takes pictures when crossing the Continental Divide. |
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| The temperature was certainly a bit below average for this time of year. Must be all that global warming I keep hearing about. |
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 Traveling south from Yellowstone National Park you go through Grand Teton National Park. This is Jackson Lake with some mountains on the other side. |
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| Okay, I swear this is my last Continental Divide picture. |
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 At over 9000 feet up, the snow was rather deep. |
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| And after about a half hour drive southeast, the snow is gone. I believe this was as I was entering the Wind River Indian Reservation. |
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| The Wind River Hotel and Casino. Why did I stay at an Indian casino? Because it was there. |
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| Quite a big room for a small price. I suppose they figure they make up the difference in the casino. They figured wrong with me. |
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| I don't know if I would call it fine dining, but I did have a surprisingly good beef stroganoff. |
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| There was a little bit of sun as I drove through Bozeman on Sunday. That was just about it for the first five days of the trip. |
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