Blue hole: A (very) hot spring in Yellowstone
The runoff from the spring creates its own art workCopyright 2008 Lydia Hinshaw
WEST YELLOWSTONE, MT -- All summer we've been looking up -- at El Capitan, at Half Dome, at countless peaks in Yosemite, and more recently, the Grand Tetons.
In Yellowstone, so many of the views are at our feet.
Sunday afternoon we tramped boardwalks among hot springs and mudpots and fumaroles and geysers. We passed sign after sign warning us not to step off the boardwalk, lest we break through the thin crust of earth and get boiled alive.
We had no problem heeding these warnings.
In Yellowstone, so many of the views are at our feet.
Sunday afternoon we tramped boardwalks among hot springs and mudpots and fumaroles and geysers. We passed sign after sign warning us not to step off the boardwalk, lest we break through the thin crust of earth and get boiled alive.
We had no problem heeding these warnings.
The aspen was a bright spot at a waterfall we stopped at in Idaho. The springs and geysers and fumaroles and mudpots are in Wyoming.
And we are in Montana, capping off a three-state day, which is easy enough to do in these parts.
Only after we got back to the motel Saturday did we discover that we'd just been hiking in Wyoming. We'd headed east out of Driggs, ID, and crossed an unmarked state line as we headed up into the mountains.
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