Yellowstone National Park – part 1

We have been blessed with very fine weather on our STW – we have had mostly sunny, warm days. Great picture-taking days. But that is about to change. The forecast for the Yellowstone National Park area is for scattered thunderstorms today, rain tomorrow and rain and snow both Friday and Saturday. Yes, snow. There is no other word that scares me as much as “snow.” I simply have no interest in hauling an 8-ton trailer around on slippery roads.

So we have changed our plans a bit. Today we will haul the RV across Yellowstone to West Yellowstone, but will stop at Old Faithful on the way. We really want to visit the geyser and are not at all certain that we will want to return to Yellowstone once we leave it. I can’t see that there would be much joy in driving around the park in a cold rain or wet snow.

I also took the day yesterday – a warm, sunny day – to drive into Yellowstone to take some photos. Because it was just the truck – and just me (Jett stayed home) – I was able to get to some places that would have been impossible otherwise. Most notably I drove to the top of the Lake Butte Overlook to take some elevated photos of Yellowstone Lake and I walked the 1 km trail at the Mud Volcano. I also got some unexpected up-close-and-personal shots of buffalo.

In all, I took over 100 photos. A few of the best are shown here.