Hello everyone! I know this is way too late. I was quite busy this past one year in various things - my little boy, sister's wedding, job changes, visas, immigrations, international and domestic travels and what not.
So i realized today that I never finished my Yellowstone series. I cannot emphasize enough on how Yellowstone has been my best trip ever!
So on this morning we had to head back to our hotel in SLC and we were going to be taking the straight route and not the scenic drive, which meant we had ample time on hand. Our group started to depart from the cabin by 8 am and we were amongst the last to leave at around 10. The darling that my husband is, agreed to head back to the park to see Grand Prismatic.
Once we reached there the parking was horribly full. So we parked along the road and while I stayed with Rishi, V did a quick tour of the Grand Prismatic. He took some amazing pictures! Once he was back we headed to fairy falls trail head and did not have too much trouble finding a parking. Without wasting too much time I prepared my little backpack with water, SLR, my HTC m8, a pack of cookies and set of on the trail to see the most amazing sight of my life.
It is a fairly simple walk on a gravel road for the most part. After a walk of maybe half a mile I started to climb up the hill. You dont need to look for it really, the hill is overly crowded and you would just know - this is where you have to climb. I kept looking back to see if I was high enough to see it without any obstacles. I could see it pretty soon enough but I had a big zoom lens on my SLR and couldn't get the entire thing in one frame. This one was 55-300 mm so I kept going higher and then I just decided to take pictures from my cell phone. I didn't want to take too long, was worried that Rishi was being difficult.
Well the descent wasn't too nice. Slippery mud all along! I think my shoes helped a lot. I hadn't hiked in almost 5 years and was a little rusty too. I tried my best to get back as soon as possible to relieve V from Rishi.
We headed towards firehole lake road, stopped to see White dome geyser, the wait was about 30 minutes. I guess we had just missed the previous eruption. It was pretty. The lake area was beautoful not to mention a small hot spring we stopped by a while. Then we moved down to another spot near Madison that we hadnt seen. We had lunch at the picnic area, picked up some brochures, saw an amazing view of the valley and headed for a long drive. It was almost 4pm I guess.
V enjoyed driving back too. He had fun driving on 80 miles limit roads. This route is pretty scenic too. I still had one small regret of not seeing the Tetons :(
Well well well we saw them from the road. Totally loved it. Someday I hope I will make it back to Yellowstone, do some hiking, visit Tetons, some sections we couldn't cover and still hope to be back again!
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