Jeff Keller's Blog » Yellowstone Trip 2006 http://lostworld.pair.com/blog Because everyone else is doing it... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Farewell to Yellowstone http://lostworld.pair.com/blog/2006/05/09/farewell-to-yellowstone/ http://lostworld.pair.com/blog/2006/05/09/farewell-to-yellowstone/#comments Wed, 10 May 2006 03:28:18 +0000 Jeff Keller http://lostworld.pair.com/wordpress/?p=863

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After a quick dinner we headed back into Yellowstone (which isn’t hard, as the entrance is literally around the block) for some dusk wildlife viewing. While we didn’t see any new animals (plenty of bison and elk though), I did get the nice sunset shot you see above. It was a fitting end to a pretty nice trip.

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Today we put a ton of miles on our fabulous rental SUV. We drove south from
West Yellowstone through Idaho (right through potato country), over the very
crazy Teton Pass, and into Jackson Hole. Man, I’d love to live there… time
to start shopping for a vacation home. Anyhow, we then drove up to Grand Teton,
which has some really rugged mountains and several large lakes. Like at Yellowstone,
most of the services were still closed for the winter. That didn’t take away
from the scenery, though… pictures after the link.


Super panorama of the Tetons (click
for larger)


Potato fields in Idaho


Tetons


Grand Teton is the big mountain in the middle, shrouded by clouds at the moment


Still-frozen Jenny Lake


We saw two of these guys running along the road


The mighty Snake River with the Tetons in the background


The only moose we’ve seen so far


Looking down Jackson Hole from the Nat’l Elk Refuge. We got to do some offroad
driving to get here!

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Today we drove all over the other (accessible) parts of Yellowstone. We went
to Mammoth Hot Springs, Canyon, and Yellowstone Lake. The weather was all over
the place… from sun to rain to hail to snow, and then back again. Tomorrow
we’re off to Grand Teton!

More pics below…


One of those photos that’s much better in B&W than color


Mammoth Hot Springs


Fire devastation


These guys are everywhere


Church in Mammoth


Neat colors here


Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone


Lower Falls


Another view of the falls, this time from Artist Point


Yellowstone Lake is still covered by ice

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What a place! We drove in through the west entrance this morning and headed
toward Old Faithful. We stopped MANY times along the way… sometimes for landscapes,
other times for animals. So far we’ve seen lots of elk and bison, but no bears.
We still have to go to the north and eastern sides of the park, but that’s
for another day.

Click the link to see photos from today, taken with my Canon EOS-20D. They
are shown in chronological order.


Elk


First of many Bison we saw


More Bison


Yes, this bird is standing on Bison poop


Old Faithful


Looking toward Old Faithful from the Lodge


Chipmunk


Morning Glory pool


Gibbon Falls

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