Yellowstone Part 2

Old Faithful

It's another beautiful day in Yellowstone and I was snug as a bug last night. I didn't get cold once and slept straight through. It was great!

We had to move campsites today because we only had reservations for two nights. On our way to the new campsite we passed another buck with a huge set of velvet antlers, definitely the biggest that we've seen so far, and we passed a buck elk with two velvet nubs.

We decided that today we had to get some laundry done, thankfully Yellowstone has laundry facilities.

We headed up to Old Faithful, that was cool. About a half hour after we arrived we got to see all the action. We also walked around and saw many more geysers and and springs. The water in some of the areas was bluer than anything I ever saw but also smelled of sulfur.

Grand Prismatic Spring

We then headed over to what the park called a five mile "hike" to check out a 200 foot waterfall and a huge spring (Fairy Falls Trail). It was no hike like I've ever done and was more like a walk. The "hike" weaved through new growth forest for the most part. The falls were cool.





We both decided that we would have an early evening. The earliest we've gotten to campsite before tonight has been 8pm and we really wanted to enjoy camping a little more tonight. On our way to the campsite we stopped and got a potato & onion to grill up with our dinner. Jennifer, my cousin Todd's wife, was awesome and gave us elk sirloins and ground elk to grill up and those sirloins were calling our names.

Dinner turned out delicious, I think I elk steaks way better than beef steaks very tender and great flavor.

We met the guy in the campsite next to ours. His name was Jason and was was traveling via motorcycle from Manhattan, NY to Santa Barbara, CA. He was taking his time, camping and hitting many of the National Parks on his way to the west coast. It was cool meeting someone who was doing something similar to what we are doing.

The moon tonight is unbelievable. I don't know if I have ever seen it so bright! In the campground it was lighting everything up as if there were streetlights. Very cool, but a bummer because we couldn't see the stars like we had hoped to.