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Great hike along the South Rim of the Yellowstone Grand Canyon

Yesterday we went to the Upper & Lower Falls of the YS Grand Canyon. The color of the YS River is so striking of a green hue as it contrasts to the sides of the canyon with their white, tans, reds of auburn, black stone that it doesn’t look real. From Artists Point it seems that you are viewing some computer generated image as the water tumbles over the falls & heads toward your vantage point.

We then took the Lilly Pad Lake route and on to Clear Lake past some sulphur smelling thermals and strange moon like terrain & then instantly into a calm grass Kaiden meadow with a large bill bison using the trail as his own private lunch room. Grazing while we tried to distract him & move him away from his lunch sight. Finally after about 20 min of failed attempts to encourage him to graze elsewhere and we got the clue and circled around him through the meadow & back on to the trail.

We can back to the trailhead to find a major traffic jam of on lookers of large elk grazing next to the parking lot. The park ranger was about to fine some folks because they were way to close. I got a shot of him as we walked by.

Today we are on to a much more critical hunt – a new blowup mattress that doesn’t leek. Maybe some geysers later.

July 1, 2013 - Posted by hughharrisfca | Education, Exercise