We entered Yellowstone from the North side and stopped at Mammoth Hot Springs first. These hot springs are amazing in that they have built up an entire hill hundreds of feet tall!
Everything was blinding white in the sun.
Pots!
Driving south, we had great views of Electric Peak and beautiful rolling parkland.
Our next stop was at the Norris Geyser Basin. Before we could see any hot springs or geysers we could see the steam rising from the trees and hear bubbling and hissing - it was very surreal!
This spring glowed like it was radioactive - it's appropriately called "pearl spring".
We then hiked to the Artist Paint Pots, an area with plenty of mud pits. Unfortunately for us most of the mud had dried up because it was late in the summer. I hadn't realized before that these were fed by rainwater and not by groundwater. There were a few pits that were still spitting.
A splash captured on camera!
We finished our long day with a visit to Old Faithful and the geyser basin around it. This geyser looks like it has airbrush flames trailing off into the Firehole river!
Lion Geyser erupting in the evening.
Emilie had a Yoshikamat film camera, which needed some clever maneuvering to take a photo directly downwards.
We continued our drive south to the Tetons that evening after dinner, arriving in Wyoming just as the sun was setting. We drove all the way to Jackson Hole, watching the Tetons gradually blend into the darkening sky and expansive Jackson lake.
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