I had a scout last week ask me if I could do a 10 mile hike with him for his Hiking Merit Badge. He has the 20 mile hike done, and 3 of the 10 mile hikes done, so we only need to do 2 more. I told him I would have time Saturday morning from 5:30AM to 11:00AM before a family reunion, thinking he might not want to get up that early on a Saturday, but he said that sounded good to him! So I was able to get another scout leader to join us, and we met at my house at 5:30 am, and drove to the trailhead an hiked 10 miles in 3 hours! We were done way before 11, but really got to enjoy the sunrise, and quiet serenity of the mountains in the early morning.
I really enjoyed it!
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
High Adventure 2013 - Yellowstone Canyons Area
On the last day of our week long High Adventure to Yellowstone National Park we went to the Canyon area of Yellowstone. The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone is a beautiful canyon with 2 beautiful waterfalls and definitely worth the visit!
We checked out the view from the view points along the north rim, and hiked down to the brink of the lower falls. It was amazing to be that close to the edge as that much water went over the falls!
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| Lower Falls in Yellowstone |
Then we hiked the South Rim Trail from the start, down the the Artist Point Lookout, then looped around by Clear Lake and back up to the top where we were parked. It was a beautiful hike! Every corner you turned gave a new, awesome view!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
High Adventure 2013 - Yellowstone Old Faithful Area!
We got up early (4:45am) because we knew that the Old Faithful area gets busy! We brought muffins to eat once we got there, and loaded up into the vehicles. It took a little longer to get going than we had hoped, but were still able to get to Old Faithful just before 6am! The drive in was so peaceful! We saw only 1 other vehicle on the road the whole way in. It was like we had the park to ourselves!
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!
We ended up getting to see quite a few geysers! We saw:
After our time in on the boardwalk, we checked out the Old Faithful Lodge - it's pretty cool to check out! It so creative how they made almost everything in there out of logs!
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!
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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