On June 28th
we decided to head over to Old Faithful since we hadn’t been there yet this
summer. When we got there we went
into the Visitor’s Center to find out the time of the next eruption. We had 30 minutes give or take 10
minutes to the next eruption. We
wanted to witness it from Observation Point, which is a half-mile hike with an
elevation change of 200 feet in that half-mile. However, we were still about half a mile from the
trail head. Off we went so that we
would reach the top before Old Faithful went off. Check out the pictures, we did make it to the top with about
2 to 3 minutes to spare. This was
Dave’s first time to see it from this advantage point.
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| Dave on the trail before we headed up |
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| Old Faithful before it goes off. |
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| It's erupting |
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| Us at the top |
The next day we drove to Mammoth so that we could hike
Beaver Ponds trail. We tried once
last year but it started to rain before we even go to the trail head. This time the weather was much better
but it was still a little warm for Yellowstone standards. Beaver Ponds is a trail that is a loop
of 5.5 miles that takes you from Wyoming into Montana and back. The first .7 of the trail is uphill all
the way. It would have been better
is we had started from the other end so that the last .7 would have been
downhill. We past several hikers
who had decided to do this trail from the easier route. Who knew? It was a good hike but as for wildlife we don’t seem to ever
see much. This time other than
beautiful scenery we saw ducks, butterflies and dragonflies.
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| This was the trail head from the other end. |
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| Me before we start the uphill climb |
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| The first pond that we came to, there were several. |
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| We are know at the furthermost point of the trail. See all the hikers across the pond |
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| Now this is a footbridge |
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| Dave on the trail |
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