One of our leaders found a website that posts the latest geyser eruptions and the predicted times for the next eruption, and since there is 3G internet in the Old Faithful Area (not so much anywhere else), we were able to use a smart phone to hit all the right spots at the right times to maximize our geyser viewing enjoyment! The site is www.geysertimes.org and it helped us a lot!
Of course we had to go see Old Faithful and watch it go off. The window they gave us was like 6:40 plus or minus 17 minutes. So we got there 20 minutes early, and ended up waiting almost 40 minutes for it to go. It was impressive to watch it go off, but we enjoyed watching others more. Our favorite was Beehive Geyser. It's only like 25 feet off the boardwalk, and hit has a little geyser next to it that goes off a little before Beehive does. We waited there and watched it go off, and the wind changed directions and it actually soaked us! By the time the water goes up 150 feet and comes back down the water was cold, but it was still fun!
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| Beehive Geyser |
- Lion
- Anenome
- Beehive
- Old Faithful
- Riverside
- Daisy
We walked all the way up to Morning Glory Pool:
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| Morning Glory |
And we got to see our only sign of bear on the whole trip! We saw bear tracks right alongside the boardwalk!
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| Bear Tracks along the Old Faithful Boardwalk |
Then it was getting crowded and hard to find parking, so we made one stop on the way back to camp, then called it a day!
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