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We continued our drive into Yellowstone. It is 22 million acres of Lodgepole pine trees. They look like a telephone pole with a christmas tree on top. Miles and miles of repetative trees. The first hour or two were pretty boring. Then we reached the geothermal section of the park and both of our 'boring' opinions changed to 'awesome'.
We stopped at the visitor center to learn that a majority of what were were seeing was new growth because in 1988 a large fire had destroyed a majority of the pines. This now explains why Jason calls Yellowstone Hell. He was here in 1991 when everything was an ash bucket.
The west basin had a never ending fog that was generated from steam ports in the ground. We were essentially standing on a giant volcano. We did find two little holes not behind a fence which we 'sneeked' up on and stood as close as we dared. It sounded like a scary movie sound effects of a demon child coming from the hole.
We then proceeded to old faithful, which was indeed faithful. Pretty amazing how high it actually does go, atleast 25 feet or better. There were an amazing amount of tourists waiting for the gyser to release which was equally entertaining. Especially the three tour buses of Asians that were following us to every stop throughout the rest of the park. holding up peace signs and making fun faces in every picture.
We continued through Yellowstone to the flower pots, bacteria mats, boiling mud, and spasm gyser. There was also an area that had a bridge crossing a stream. On the oppisite side of the bridge was a series of hotsprings that released into the cold water creating steam, and luke warm water eventhough the temps were in the high 30's. Pretty neat.
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