Yellowstone was by far the place i enjoyed the most, everything about it, from the geology to the wildlife and the amazing mountains, it was simply incredible and i urge anyone who can to check it out with at least a week.
Our Yellowstone experience started with us getting to the town of Gardiner Montana at about 3 in the afternoon, as august is the busiest month for Yellowstone all the campsites were full so we drove 2.5 miles up a shit dirt road to camp at this national forest site called Eagle Creek for 7 dollars.
Eagle Creek was quite nice, it had everything a good campsite should, smelly pit toilets and running water, but really it had a nice view and we met some bikers from Michigan who shared their fire with us as well as their rum and stories of craziness at strugis bike rally which is where they were headed.
Our campsite at Eagle Creek.
The morning after we hung out with the bikers we got up ridiculously early, 5 am, to try and drive into Yellowstone and get a campsite at Norris campground.
We wanted to camp at Norris because it is located close to most of the stuff we wanted to check out and it has flush toilets.
So we got to Norris fairly early, around 8 am and there is already a line up of cars waiting for sites, we were waiting in line behind a group from Texas and we start chatting and i decide to leave steph with them and drive back to a different campsite and try to get some sites.
I drove back up the road away from Norris and stop at this campground Indian Creek and there is a longer line there and i wait for about 2 hours and don't get a site so i drive back to Norris and find out steph got a site, but then sold it to a family for 100 dollars, but the Texans said we could tent on their site.
So we set up our tent, and drive down to the Old Faithful geyser to check out the area and eat a nice lunch at the Old Faithful lodge with our new cash.
Below are our photos of the geysers around Old Faithful and a few other randoms from ours first day.
This is Sheepeater Cliff, named after a native tribe in the area, it is a very awesome case of columnar jointing.
Same cliff with steph for size.
Roaring Mountain, a mountain that has gas hissing out of fumaroles all day, a fumarole is a vent in the earth over an active geothermal area that has gas escaping.
Steph posing in front of a very colorful hot spring, the different colors are from different kinds of bacteria living in the different temperatures of water.
Me with Castle Geyser, it only blows every 14 or so hours, we waited about 2 hours for it to go.
Steph with Castle Geyser.
Castle Geyser again.
Pretty hot spring with pretty girl.
Geyser i forget the name of with steph.
Hot spring with the trees reflected in it.
Thumbs up for hot pools of water that smell like sulphur.
Old Faithful blowing its top.
Some mule deer eating grass in the Mammoth Village area early in the morning.
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