Yellowstone September 2 & 3

In the four days at Yellowstone, we did both loops and saw so many great sites. On September 4th we went about 50 miles to Grand Teton National Park. Lots of Bison..some of the males roam alone after mating..

Near the north entrance is Mammoth Hot Springs and we explored

Just a national treasure....

These female Elk came to be with this guy below...he has a harem!

The rangers are there to keep people from approaching the Elk..they are wild animals but apparently like the grass near the buildings at Mammoth Springs

We went back to Canyon...it is the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, and to the falls. We hiked Uncle Tom's trail

and here we are at the end of the trail in front of the water falls in the canyon...we have our camelbak's for water, and did frequent stops on the way back up

Here's a shot of the canyon with the water below..doesn't it look like a postcard?

We went back to the Upper Geyser Basin and sat down to watch the biggest geyser of them all..the Grand. It was predicted to erupt between 2pm and 6pm..we got there about 4pm

So many of us were waiting, and we talked to several locals who encouraged us to wait
There was a small geyer, Turpin, next to Grand that bubbled up right before Grand, and then if nothing happened after she bubbled up, we knew we had 20 minutes more before Turpin came up again. Just past 6pm, she bubbled and up came Grand!

It lasted for about 10 minutes..very long for a geyser, and very tall, and it would go down and then shoot back up..very neat

We did get a view of another geyser, Beehive, while we were waiting for Grand

We walked around the upper basin and saw many other interesting formations

This is Giant Geyser and hasn't erupted in a long time

Great place to visit, and we had great weather..in the 70's during the day, and 40's at night..we turned on the heat at night. On to the next marvel of nature.