More Geysers and Thermal Pools

Old Faithful

The next day we hiked out to some of the thermal pools and Geysers behind Old Faithful. We came to Castle Geyser first and heard that there was a 4 hour time period where it was supposed to go off - it was three hours into that period and hadn't gone off yet. We joined the large crowd that was waiting around. David set up his tripod. We waited for about 20 minutes and got really bored so we decided to keep hiking - we would probably miss it but we had already seen Old Faithful.

We hiked around a loop for about two hours and were exhausted from walking and taking so many photos. We started back towards Castle Geyser and our car when we heard lots of water flowing. We looked at our phones and it was way past the time Castle was supposed to go off but we ran towards it anyways. And there it was an hour and a half late but going off with no one around:

Castle Geyser

A rainbow formed in Castle Geyser's steam.

Inside the Old Faithful Inn for Dinner

Our night walk through the Geysers.

And our hikes the next day:

Thermal Pools at Yellowstone

As soon as we got into Yellowstone we started hitting bison traffic jams:

The next two days we spent hopping around to different thermal pools, hot springs, and geysers. We watched Old Faithful, and Castle Geyser. We ate at the Old Faithful Inn which is a really cool building and walked around at dusk - we had the geysers all to ourselves!

Here are photos from Lower Geyser Basin:

Last Night in the Tetons

For our last night in the Tetons we bought a back country permit and a back country campsite and rented a canoe. We paddled up Stringer Lake, took the boat out and carried it over a 200 yard portage, and paddled up Leigh Lake to our remote campsite! It rained on and off and we spent our time drying off by the fire - amazing!! In the morning we paddled back and headed for Yellowstone.