Day 2 cont. We are on the trails and the goal is Morning Glory pool.
On our walk we knew from the predictions that Grand Geyser which is the tallest geyser at over 400 ft. Could go off. Well we are 45 min late. And it hasn't gone off yet! The plus minus Is 60 minutes. So we hunker down. And are rewarded with the most spectacular show!
After this we continued our trek and the baby needed to eat then Megan needed the restroom so the kids and I looked at riverside geyser.
Now we finish to morning glory.
After this back to the motorhome to drive down the road to find another geyser basin to see Grand Prismatic pool. But we are doing the 2.5 mile hike up hill to get the better view.
On the drive we encounter traffic along the river and see a lot of lights and rangers on the road. They are forcing traffic Through! This means one thing animals! They aren't letting anyone stop or out of their vehicles. And everyone is going real slow! We get up to the action look out the window and sadly no pics as we couldn't stop but what do we see. Right off the road maybe 30 yards two giant grizzly bears fighting in the river! I wish we could get pics! But the excitement from the two older kids was excitement enough! Anyway we get to the trail head and park and hike the 2.5 miles up hill. And this was our reward:
You can see the little people up against it and I'm sure you can see why this hike was on my bucket list. This is 4th trip and first time doing this hike!
We get down the mountain and I see rangers at the trail head with shotguns (for warning shots) I start talking to them and they advise the bears we saw had ventured this way but appear to have gone over the mountain not up the trail. Geez that's disheartening a bit!
Back at the motorhome we are exhausted after a very long day of hiking at old faithful and the trial we just finished. In fact according to my watch we did 24k steps! Back to base camp for dinner and a pipe.
More tomorrow!
On our walk we knew from the predictions that Grand Geyser which is the tallest geyser at over 400 ft. Could go off. Well we are 45 min late. And it hasn't gone off yet! The plus minus Is 60 minutes. So we hunker down. And are rewarded with the most spectacular show!
After this we continued our trek and the baby needed to eat then Megan needed the restroom so the kids and I looked at riverside geyser.
Now we finish to morning glory.
After this back to the motorhome to drive down the road to find another geyser basin to see Grand Prismatic pool. But we are doing the 2.5 mile hike up hill to get the better view.
On the drive we encounter traffic along the river and see a lot of lights and rangers on the road. They are forcing traffic Through! This means one thing animals! They aren't letting anyone stop or out of their vehicles. And everyone is going real slow! We get up to the action look out the window and sadly no pics as we couldn't stop but what do we see. Right off the road maybe 30 yards two giant grizzly bears fighting in the river! I wish we could get pics! But the excitement from the two older kids was excitement enough! Anyway we get to the trail head and park and hike the 2.5 miles up hill. And this was our reward:
You can see the little people up against it and I'm sure you can see why this hike was on my bucket list. This is 4th trip and first time doing this hike!
We get down the mountain and I see rangers at the trail head with shotguns (for warning shots) I start talking to them and they advise the bears we saw had ventured this way but appear to have gone over the mountain not up the trail. Geez that's disheartening a bit!
Back at the motorhome we are exhausted after a very long day of hiking at old faithful and the trial we just finished. In fact according to my watch we did 24k steps! Back to base camp for dinner and a pipe.
More tomorrow!
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