Yellowstone September 16, 2012

On this day I would have to head home — but not before having some more fun in the Park.

I pulled up my tent stakes and packed up, then headed south from the Norris Campground as far as the Gibbon Meadows. I caught a quick glimpse of a grizzly bear through the morning […]

Yellowstone September 15, 2012

Last full day in the Park(s) for this trip.

I started the day by heading east over the Norris-Canyon Road. I took the Virginia Cascades drive and stopped for another morning photo from the meadow above the cascades. On this morning, fog and smoke from the Cygnet Complex fires combined for a surreal sunrise.

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Yellowstone, September 14, 2012

After a night of very poor sleep, having spent it in the car where it was parked at White Dome Geyser, even though my tent was pitched at Norris Campground, because I was too tired to drive back to camp, I got in motion again before sunrise.

I figured, since I was in the […]

Yellowstone September 13, 2012 – Geyser Day

On this morning, I awoke in a cloud of smoke at the Norris Campground, but once I drove out of the smoke cloud I found myself in a brilliant bluebird day morning, without a cloud in the sky. I drove slowly through the Hayden Valley looking for wildlife. There was a crowd at the […]

Yellowstone September 12, 2012

I couldn’t have asked for a better start to the day. I pulled up my tent stakes at Lewis Lake Campground before sunrise and made the short drive to the West Thumb Geyser Basin, fingers crossed that the harem that had been there on the evening of the 10th would making a sunrise show. […]