Julie and I spent almost two full days in Yellowstone which may seem like alot but the park is larger than most small states and would take a lifetime to thoroughly explore. We had previously snowmobiled to and toured the old Faithful and Main Geyser areas on our previous trip to Jackson Hole so we planned our route this time to revolve around the rest of the park.
One of the Major Highlights was the "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone". Below are two pictures for a scenic lookout entitled "Artist's Point" for obvious reasons. The View of the 300 foot waterfall and yellowstone River Canyon was spectacular and the camera hardly does it justice.
Another viewpoint we hiked to involved the following warning sign and they weren't kidding around. Getting down into the canyon is the easy part but getting back out is the equivalent of taking the stairs to the 30th floor of an office building which might not be TOO bad except for the fact that the whole thing is in the thin air at 8000 foot elevation.
Here's one small section of the stairs up the cliff
We also obviously saw a ton of interesting thermal features ranging from boiling pools to geysers to hot springs to mud volcanoes. It will take a while to sort through all the pictures.
In Custer State Park we were excited to see a few Buffalo. In Yellowstone we saw entire herds of Buffalo (some groups numbering in the hundreds) roaming the park.
As nice as it is to see Herds of Buffalo from Afar, it is much more exciting when one decides to come up and join all the cars on the road. As you can see it is as big as a car.
This next picture was taken directly from the car with no zoom, I probably could have reached out and touched the buffalo but seeing as how the top was down I decided against it.
Below is a picture of Lake Yellowstone which covers over 100 square miles and reaches depths over 400 feet.
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