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| Old Faithful |
Waking at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge, we dedicated the day to a geyser hike. I was developing blisters on the toes of both feet, but I bandaged myself up with mole skin and made the most of it. I'll be damned if I was going to let something as trivial as pain keep me from seeing this. Besides, my family was fighting off a cold so they were being troopers, too.
So, one last push before taking it easy the rest of the way.
After breakfast, we watched Old Faithful, again, then pressed on to see the thermal features of the Upper Basin.
Roughly following the Firehole, we made our way to Morning Glory Pool, then back a slightly different route to see what we had bypassed on the way out there.
By the time we got back, I was hurting and everyone was ready for lunch. I ended up cutting holes in the bottoms of my toes to drain them, then I bandaged myself up as good as I could to let me continue for the afternoon. We took a scenic drive along past Firehole Lake and Canyon, then stopped at the Midway Geyser Basin.
There we saw Excelsior Geyser, Turquoise Pool and the Grand Prismatic Spring. I, also, counted nine lost hats.
By day's end, we had seen enough of the thermal features of Yellowstone. Surely, we did not even attempt to see them all, but after awhile every hot, bubbling pool looks like the previous hot bubbling pool. Just like your first bison is magical, the twentieth one nice, the fiftieth one an irritation if it's blocking the road.
Still, upon leaving the next morning Hope wished to see Old Faithful just one more time. The rest of us thought she was nuts.
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| Old Faithful Inn and the Upper Basin |
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| Old Faithful from a distance |
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| Steve and Jim at Giant Geyser |
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| Morning Glory |
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| Shield Spring |
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| Us in front of Castle Geyser |
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| A hot spring pool |
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| Firehole Lake |
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| Grand Prismatic Spring |
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