I'm now in Yellowstone, near the northeast entrance. This area was one of the best in there I thought. Snow still falling on mountain tops.

Further in, looking back northeast. I should have spent more time here.

Ah yes, the fun Dunraven Pass. So I'm heading up this, not knowing what to expect for roads/cliffs. Bam, heavy snow showers hit. I turn around and head back down. I was a little cautious with the snow thing, just because I didn't know how spooky any passes in here would get. I then say screw it and turn back around and head over it. It was no big deal. Snow stopped on the other side.

I'm now at the falls(yeah really, that's a fall). Not sure how I pulled this one off, but I never realized I looked at two different falls while here. Also not sure how I never even knew about that main road on the other side, that I never took. Well, it being closed didn't help(I later learned). I guess that is the lower falls, which is the 300 foot one. It was cold and breezy here. Lots of people around.

Evidently something hot near the surface around that rock.

I'm now near the upper falls brink. To be honest, I never knew there were two falls here while there. Yet I knew of the names, upper and lower falls. I guess I told myself those were names for where you viewed the one from. I thought there had to be two, but while there convinced myself there was only the one and I was seeing it. Never realized I saw both till later. All I had to do was look at the stupid park map I had with me the whole time. Instead I used the GPS. I might be wrong, but I don't think the GPS even had that main loop road which was closed(the one running on the other side of the river/falls here). Sure didn't show the falls.

Brink of the upper falls. Wish I had known there really were two falls and that there was another brink I could get to. But as far as I can tell now, it was all closed on that other road.

Snow picking up.

Slower shutter, thanks to the darker conditions the snow was providing.

Slower shutter again, which is why the falling snow doesn't show up. Could only get one before the lens was all covered with drops/snow.

I leave the falls and head for somewhere new. Wind up in Norris Geyser Basin and the Steamboat Geyser. I read the sign saying it hadn't erupted since 2005 and it's the biggest in the world when it does. It also noted it's only sign it was about to were frequent sprays of 15-30 feet. Well I stood there and noted it was spraying to about that height, and doing so every minute or so. I thought it sure seemed frequent. So I stood there and stood there. The closest I got to a real eruption was likely the Japanese couple that stood next to me and farted. After that I moved over to my bag on the bench, where I heard it again! That was one sign I listened to and left. I head north to my room in Gardiner, the Super 8. All was well here the first night. I would soon know it as a Helltel more than anything else.

I wake up and drive south to the Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces. The lighting, etc, was wonderful at this point.

I love being in the clouds or at least even with them.

I'm now at the horribly stinky terraces. They have a big sulfur dioxide smell. One I think helps with my soon to be headache from hell.

It was a very interesting place, one I spent far too much of my time at, half stuck in Gardiner.   Continue to Page 3