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My first WorldCon, etc., #2
The next morning M and I headed south (on US 89, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coalboy) about 50 miles to Gardiner, Montana, and the northern entrance to the park. And as we headed out of Livingston another deer leaped in front of the car, a doe this time. Fortunately, this time the animal kept going [g].
M dropped me off for a day at the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center (http://www.nps.gov/yell/historyculture/library.htm), where I did more research. The Heritage Center vertical files are incredible. For certain definitions of incredible, anyway [g]. Fortunately, beautiful downtown Gardiner is only a short walk, and I did manage to tear myself away long enough to get some lunch.
M picked me up late in the afternoon, having spent the day at Mammoth Hot Springs, which she’d mostly missed the last time we were in the park due to a cold, and we headed down to Old Faithful, where we had a cabin reserved for five nights. The drive was uneventful except for large quantities of elk at Mammoth, and stops at Beryl Spring and Firehole Falls. Our cabin was waiting for us (alas, not #200 that we’d asked for, but close to it -- #200 is special because you can see Old Faithful from the front door, and amusing to me because the one time I stayed there, I couldn’t get inside for a couple of hours one day because of a bison sitting on my doorstep). We checked in and I went for an evening stroll in the geyser basin – M was tired, so she didn’t go with me. I didn’t see anything erupt, but it was a lovely evening.
The next morning, after checking at the visitor center for eruption times, M and I gradually made our way down to Punch Bowl Spring and Daisy Geyser. M saw Daisy. I was having slight digestion problems and wound up seeing it from a distance as I ran for a restroom [sigh]. We then made our way slowly back to the cabin for lunch, and I went walking again after (M is 22 years older than I am – she doesn’t quite have my level of energy).
Instead of giving you a blow-by-blow, I’ll give you a list of geysers I saw in the five days we were at Old Faithful, and then hit the other highlights next post. So. I saw Grand (in the icon) twice, Old Faithful practically every time I walked past it (at least half a dozen times), Castle, Riverside, Daisy (on the last day we were there), Great Fountain, Lion (for the first time), Oblong (for the first time, from a distance), a Fan and Mortar hot period (but not, alas, an actual eruption, although it was the first time I’d seen a hot period), and Grotto. Two new-to-me geysers, which is always wonderful, and it was only the second time I’d seen Great Fountain.
More tomorrow.
Firehole Falls
Beehive Geyser
Riverside Geyser
Punch Bowl Spring
Great Fountain Geyser
coalboy) about 50 miles to Gardiner, Montana, and the northern entrance to the park. And as we headed out of Livingston another deer leaped in front of the car, a doe this time. Fortunately, this time the animal kept going [g].M dropped me off for a day at the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center (http://www.nps.gov/yell/historyculture/library.htm), where I did more research. The Heritage Center vertical files are incredible. For certain definitions of incredible, anyway [g]. Fortunately, beautiful downtown Gardiner is only a short walk, and I did manage to tear myself away long enough to get some lunch.
M picked me up late in the afternoon, having spent the day at Mammoth Hot Springs, which she’d mostly missed the last time we were in the park due to a cold, and we headed down to Old Faithful, where we had a cabin reserved for five nights. The drive was uneventful except for large quantities of elk at Mammoth, and stops at Beryl Spring and Firehole Falls. Our cabin was waiting for us (alas, not #200 that we’d asked for, but close to it -- #200 is special because you can see Old Faithful from the front door, and amusing to me because the one time I stayed there, I couldn’t get inside for a couple of hours one day because of a bison sitting on my doorstep). We checked in and I went for an evening stroll in the geyser basin – M was tired, so she didn’t go with me. I didn’t see anything erupt, but it was a lovely evening.
The next morning, after checking at the visitor center for eruption times, M and I gradually made our way down to Punch Bowl Spring and Daisy Geyser. M saw Daisy. I was having slight digestion problems and wound up seeing it from a distance as I ran for a restroom [sigh]. We then made our way slowly back to the cabin for lunch, and I went walking again after (M is 22 years older than I am – she doesn’t quite have my level of energy).
Instead of giving you a blow-by-blow, I’ll give you a list of geysers I saw in the five days we were at Old Faithful, and then hit the other highlights next post. So. I saw Grand (in the icon) twice, Old Faithful practically every time I walked past it (at least half a dozen times), Castle, Riverside, Daisy (on the last day we were there), Great Fountain, Lion (for the first time), Oblong (for the first time, from a distance), a Fan and Mortar hot period (but not, alas, an actual eruption, although it was the first time I’d seen a hot period), and Grotto. Two new-to-me geysers, which is always wonderful, and it was only the second time I’d seen Great Fountain.
More tomorrow.
Firehole Falls
Beehive Geyser
Riverside Geyser
Punch Bowl Spring
Great Fountain Geyser