Wednesday, June 18, 2008
After a great breakfast (Flame is a master of campfire cooking), we broke camp and made our way down the mountain, back to Yellowstone through the north entrance. All last evening, we kept hearing this thrumming noise, almost like an ATV starting up, then stopping. It was pretty rhythmic – we would hear it a few seconds, then it would stop. 15 minutes or so later, it would happen again. Went on like this until dark…then started again at dawn! Finally figured it out…it was a grouse drumming for females!
It was a gorgeous night last night, full moon (or almost full) and a ton of stars.
Our first stop in Yellowstone today was Norris Basin. Very colorful, lots of geysers, mud pots, pools, steam vents. Saw a black bear by the road – lots of people pulled over, could care less. We then went down to see Old Faithful. Lucky for us we were only an ice cream cone away from it erupting. After that we checked out the Old Faithful Inn which was amazing. It was the biggest log cabin like structure we have ever seen, it must have taken an entire mountains’ worth of pine trees to build it, it was huge! After hanging around at the Inn we then saddled back up in the car and headed back through Yellowstone having a nice lunch by the river on the way out. The next stop was in Idaho where we are spending two nights in a beautiful log cabin in the woods. It will be nice having a nice warm bed! –blogged by Alex
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