The boardwalk at Old Faithful crossing the Firehole River.
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Ken's Journal Yellowstone, Wyoming - 08/10 - 08/18/2004 |
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Yellowstone Maps. |
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Each map covers about 60 miles by 60 miles, or 3600 square
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The boardwalk at Old Faithful crossing the Firehole River. |
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Grand Geyser. |
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Chain Lakes. |
A squirrel, obviously upset with me. I watched him for a while - he was gathering pine-cones from this tree and carrying them back to some hole somewhere. |
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Morning Glory Pool. This hot spring is gradually losing it's brilliant color. Through ignorance and vandalism, people have tossed objects into the spring, clogging it's vent and lowering the temperature of the water. Each year, park workers remove hundreds of rocks, coins and other debris from the pool. |
Grotto Geyser is the most unusual of Yellowstone's geysers. Geologists speculate that the geyser originally erupted amidst a stand of dead or dying trees and deposited layers of silica on the stumps and branches. |
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 Vent Geyser near the end of an eruption. This geyser is one of three geysers in a group - Grand, Turban and Vent. An eruption of Vent is tied to eruptions at Grand and Turban. I was waiting for and eruption of Grand, which occurs once every 7-15 hours. I gave up and moved on. Later, I saw Grand go up and hurried back only to miss Grand, but got the finale at Vent. |
 Sawmill Geyser. This one erupts almost continuously. It's not very spectacular, but it's consistent! |
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 Back at Old Faithful. |
 Near Old Faithful is Black Sand Basin. This is a view of Iron Spring Creek, which flows through the basin, and some of the spring flow into the creek. |
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