Dunes Verde Powell
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Sand Dunes Wide.JPG 2006-05-06
Sue Dunes and Mt.JPG
Sue Dunes and Mt.JPG 2006-05-06
Mom on Dunes.JPG
Mom on Dunes.JPG 2006-05-06
Mesa Mom on Cliff.JPG
Mesa Mom on Cliff.JPG 2006-05-07
Cliff Palace Good Wide Shot.JPG
Cliff Palace Good Wide Shot.JPG 2006-05-07
Mom Climbing the Ladder.JPG
Mom Climbing the Ladder.JPG 2006-05-07
Mesa Spruce 3.JPG
Mesa Spruce 3.JPG 2006-05-07
Sue Climbing Up.JPG
Sue Climbing Up.JPG 2006-05-07
Morning Coffee with a view.JPG
Morning Coffee with a view.JPG 2006-05-08
Mom at Aztec.JPG
Mom at Aztec.JPG 2006-05-08
Lake Powell Sue at Sunset.JPG
Lake Powell Sue at Sunset.JPG 2006-05-08
Lake Powell 4 Long.JPG
Lake Powell 4 Long.JPG 2006-05-08
Lake Powell 3 Postcard.JPG
Lake Powell 3 Postcard.JPG 2006-05-08
My Computer Source.JPG
My Computer Source.JPG 2006-05-08
Grand Antelope Canyons Vegas
Antelope Canyon
Right Outside of Page/Lake Powell, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. A unique Canyon for light and color.
Mom Antelop Desktop.JPG
This one looked like a good desktop picture for your computer, its a real picture mom took. Mom Antelop Desktop.JPG 2006
Antelope 1.JPG
Antelope 1.JPG 2006-05-09
Antelope Blue Coat.JPG
No one we know, but it shows the depth and height of the Canyon. Antelope Canyon is seen on many movies.
Mom and Sue Exit 2.JPG
It was also used in the Zantac Esophogial Commercial. This is the exit of it. Mom and Sue Exit 2.JPG 2006-05-09
Trail Edge.JPG
This is me actually walking on the edge of a trail into the canyon. I went an hour in, 2 hours out.
Mom on Trail 2.JPG
It took me all night to convince mom to do it too. She did a half hour in, hour out. We'll conquir that fear of heights.
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Sue on Trail 5.JPG 2006-05-10
Blue Beer at the Grand Canyon.JPG
Mom drinking? She says she can because she's on vacation. I can't argue with that.
Grand Sunset 3.JPG
We made it to Hopi Point for the Sunset the first night. That was the light show of the week.
Grand Sunset Angle Glare.JPG
Guess the title says it all. Me trying to be artsy I guess.
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Mom Grand 1.JPG 2006-05-09
Sue Looking at Grand Canyon.JPG
Sue Looking at Grand Canyon.JPG 2006-05-09
Mom Grand Sunset 2.JPG
Mom Grand Sunset 2.JPG 2006-05-09
Sue at Hoover Dam.JPG
En Route to Vegas!
Chocolate Time.JPG
Too Lazy to photoshop the color, get over it, its CHOCOLATE!!! With chocolate fountains and all found at the Bellagio.
Drinking at Quarks.JPG
The last day we spent being attacked by Klingons and assimilated by the Borg just to end the day with a drink at Quarks
Mom in Skytower.JPG
The fear of heights is no more with mom in the Stratosphere tower. You can see the Strip behing/beneith her.
Sue at Mirage.JPG
We walked from the Luxor to the Stratosphere. This is one stop. Going in every casino we probably walked 10 miles total
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Chocolate Time.JPG 2006-05-11
Zion Bryce Capital
Checkerboard Mesa at Zion
First thing I did at Zion was went for a car ride and found this.
Bike at Zion
Seeing as there is no longer anyone to take pictures of and no one to take pictures of me, I've found new subjects.
Tee Pee Sunrise
Yes, that's MY tee pee. We all know I'm weird, get over it. This was the first morning in the tee pee. It was perfect.
Hanging Garden at Weeping Rock
Water seeps through the sandstone like a sponge and comes out of the walls all over the canyon making it look tropical.
Weeping Rock
This was the most notable of the "gardens".
Bryce Ampitheater
Onto Bryce National Park. They are known for their "hoodoos". The tall rock formations.
Heading Down Navajo Trail
I decided to walk down and back up, not nearly as difficult as the Grand Canyon, but has just as much scenery.
Switchbacks Down Trail
Not sure if you can see the people at the bottom, but it was steep switchbacks all the way to a canyon.
Purple Trail
Still headed down, this picture was just pretty.
The Trail Wide
Once in the canyon it was pretty cool.
Trees on Trail
Bryce is also known for these abnormally tall pine trees growing from the bottom of the canyon to the top.
2 Bridges
A little side trail took me to these two rock bridges.
Capital Reef Wide
On to Capital Reef National Park. This is the gist of it, 100 miles of a rift or shift in the earth with great colors.
Capital Reef
Heres more of the colors and layers, there's 100 miles of this, with caverns and canyons throughout it.
The Bug the size of one
I decided enough sissy stuff, I'm going to hike a "strenuous" trail up 1 3/4 miles and back down 1 3/4 miles again.
Three Quarters Up
The bug may be the size of a pin head, I can't tell on my screen. I was headed to Cassidy Arch My best acomplishment yet
Cassidy Arch from Afar
Butch Cassidy's hideout was said to be around Captial Reef, so he has an arch named for him. Almost there.
Me on Arch
After being alone all day, surprisingly I met a lady at the top willing to take a picture of me on the arch.
Me on Arch Close Up
That's as close as we could get. I still had a 2 hour trip back DOWN the rock ledges and guess what, more rocks to come.
Arches Canyons
Balanced Rock
Going into Arches NP this is the first thing I see, obviously not an arch, but cool anyways.
Both Windows
North and South Windows Arches. Took a Ranger Guided geology tour here.
Double Arch
One of the coolest and biggest arches.
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Double Arch from Below.JPG 2006-05-18
Forming Arch
What an arch may look like while forming, they are constantly changing, forming, being destroyed.
Landscape Arch
The most fragile and biggest of arches, 300 feet wide and 150 feet tall. They have video of some of it falling in 1991
Me at Partition Arch
This was the longest hike of the day, 105 degrees, got burned too, oops.
Sand Dune Arch
I had to hike red sand dunes to get here.
Sunset 1 Good
Went into town for dinner and back out to the park for the sunset, but not quite in time to get an arch view.
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Sunset 7 Good.JPG 2006-05-18
Sunset Flare at Arches.JPG
Sunset Flare at Arches.JPG 2006-05-18
Turet Arch
Across from Windows Arches
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Wall Arch 2.JPG 2006-05-18
Buck Canyon
On to Canyonlands NP. Where arches is all pictures of arches, Canyonlands is all pictures of canyons, who'd a thunk it.
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Canyonlands 2.JPG 2006-05-19
Canyons 4.JPG
Canyons 4.JPG 2006-05-19
Canyons 8.JPG
Canyons 8.JPG 2006-05-19
Cool Plant at Mesa Arch.JPG
Cool Plant at Mesa Arch.JPG 2006-05-19
Dome Crater
I forgot the official name of this, but no one can agree how it formed. Its two miles in diameter, a perfect circle.
Dome Crater Feet
There's two theories. A meteorite hit millions of years ago, or a great salt bowl left from oceans somehow.
Dome Crater Me
No Comment
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Grand View Canyonlands.JPG 2006-05-19
Mesa Arch Long Plants
This was an arch in Canyonlands, are we confused yet, I am. A short hike but a really high arch.
Mormon Temple
What else was I supposed to do in Salt Lake City on a Sunday? Go visit the mormons I guess. Temple Square was kinda cool
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Salt Lake City.JPG 2006-05-20
Salt Lake
I had to say I touched it, wasn't too impressed, but again what else am I supposed to do in Salt Lake on a Sunday in May
Yosemite San Fran
El Capitan
Vosemite National Park was after staying in Tahoe for a night. This is one of the landmarks there.
Bridalvale Falls Wide
There were so many waterfalls there it was hard to keep them straight. This one I loved the sunset on the leaves.
Mirror Lake 2
It really is a good name for the lake. I started my first day with a little hike to here.
Yos Falls Long
Yosemite Falls Upper Middle and Lower
Waterfall 2
Um Yeah, Generic Waterfall, can't remember the name, but its still pretty
Vernal Falls and Me
After hiking a mile up, I got to this viewpoint, but oh no, can't stop there, have to go to the top of the falls.
Vernal Looking Down 2
I made it, barely, soaked and frozen, here's a view from the railing at the crest of the falls. Scary
Vernal Above Rainbow
You'd think at the top you'd just go back down, but oh no, I have to go HIGHER and walk 3 miles back a different way
Dead Tree Tunnel and Me
I took a walk at dusk to a smaller Sequoia Grove. I was all by myself for once, and it figured out how to use the timer
Big Pine Cone
This wasn't a sequoia pine cone, they are actually pretty small, but these were huge pine trees with huge cones.
Grizzly Giant Rays
The famous Grizzly Giant tree, the biggest I've ever seen. Probably my favorite feature in the park
Sequoia Bunch
These are a bunch of medium sized sequoias. There's a person in the middle for reference.
Soup and Aspar at Yosemite
Good ol home cooking. Asparagus on the Grill with tomato soup.
Cable Car
On to San Fransisco. That's a change if I ever had one. Here's your classic cable car.
Bridge Bikes and Group
The hostel I'm at is like living with a travel agency. I started with a pub crawl, the next day we biked over the bridge
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Alcatraz and Sailboat.JPG 2006-05-27
Bridge MS.JPG
Bridge MS.JPG 2006-05-27
Bridge and Boat Silouette.JPG
Bridge and Boat Silouette.JPG 2006-05-27
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Cityscape 2.JPG 2006-05-27
Ferry
Yeah, I'm getting lazy with the captions. Here we took a ferry back across the bay after biking the bridge.
Sea Lion Sanct
The sea lions at Fisherman's Wharf. They started taking over the boat docks, so the city let them have them.
Sequoia Kings Canyon
Haight and Ashbury
Still in San Fran I met some friends at hippy central, Haight and Ashbury.
Seagul and Lighthouse Santa Cruz.JPG
On to a day off in Santa Cruz. This was a very friendly, photogenic Seagull on the Wharf.
Bay Watch Santa Cruz
No david hasselhof, but it was a stereotypical picture needing of being taken
Kings Canyon Wide
On to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks (2 parks treated as one) this makes 12/13 national parks total so far.
Kings Canyon 4 Plants
Combined they are bigger than Yosemite, but no one goes there. I camped two nights pretty much alone
Moro Rock
One site to see at Sequoia, Moro rock was a hike up to a view of two valleys, it was really high and out there.
Moro Rock and Sue
Here I am, high and out there...
Bear and Sequioa Meadow
I wanted to see a bear, and saw two, thank God not at my campsite. This one was minding its own business in a meadow.
Bear in Path 2
That is until it came close to the trail I was on and crossed it. I kept my distance, it didn't care.
Bear in Road 3
This one (could have been the same one, who knows) later in the day crossed the road when I was headed back to camp.
Car Tunnel
We all know Sue is amazing, even inhuman at times, but how did she fit that through there? Ingenious...
General Sherman Tree 1
The largest tree known to man. Some are taller, some are wider, but none have as much volume.
Sequoia Meadow
Preeeetttyyy
Sun in Tree Tunnel 2
That's me hiding in the shadows like always, but I'm actually in a hollow fallen Sequoia. They used to use it as a house
Sue in Sequoias
I've learned to have fun with the camera timer. This is me coming out of the shadows between two Sequioas.
Sun and Sequoia
More Pretty
Trees Looking Up
Wow, that's high
California Coast
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South Coast Winery 2.JPG 2006-06-05
South Coast Winery
Kim and I thought we'd stop for some wine tours, but oops, they all end at 5, but we fit this one in, it closed at 6.
Temecula Wine Tasting
Mmmm, at least California is good for one thing.
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Sand Diego Skyline and Sue.JPG 2006-06-05
Sand Diego Bay
Sand Diego Skyline from Cabrillo National Monument.
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San Diego.JPG 2006-06-05
San Diego Lighthouse.JPG
San Diego Lighthouse.JPG 2006-06-05
Rock Beach
This was our campsite beach at Big Sur, rocky, but cool nonetheless.
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San Diego Bay 2.JPG 2006-06-05
Rock Beach 2.JPG
Rock Beach 2.JPG 2006-06-08
Road Trip Kim
I was tired of driving for the last month, so Kim took over for me while she was here.
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Road Trip Dash.JPG 2006-06-07
Plant Art.JPG
Plant Art.JPG 2006-06-08
Limkilns and Kim
We stayed in Limekiln park, here is the namesake. Old kilns where lime was separated from limestone in the 1890s
Limkiln Campsite
We had one of three ocean view Campsites.
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Limekilns.JPG 2006-06-08
Limekiln Kim on Trail.JPG
Limekiln Kim on Trail.JPG 2006-06-08
Limekiln Falls
This was the most challanging hike, we had to cross the creek 4 times with only logs, no bridges to get here
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Limekiln Falls Long.JPG 2006-06-08
Limekiln Falls and Kim.JPG
Limekiln Falls and Kim.JPG 2006-06-08
Limekiln Campsite.JPG
Limekiln Campsite.JPG 2006-06-07
LA Beach
I think Venice Beach, I wasn't impressed.
Kim Fire and Water
Mmmm, smores, oh wait, the racoon stole our marshmellows.
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Kim at Cabrillo.JPG 2006-06-05
Hippy Angel.JPG
Hippy Angel.JPG 2006-06-09
Kim crossing Creek
One of the log bridges to get to the waterfalls. Don't fall Kim, its a wet hike back.
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Kim Fire and Water 2.JPG 2006-06-07
Grape Vines and Kim.JPG
Grape Vines and Kim.JPG 2006-06-05
Flower Cove 2
Near the waterfall into the ocean, an artistic shot of a cove.
Flower Cove 1
Near the waterfall into the ocean, an artistic flower cove shot.
Crazy Pelican Capture
Its a long story, kim got attacked by Petey the Pelican, and so did a lot of others, here's the capture.
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Crazy Pelican Capture 2.JPG 2006-06-08
Coast 1
The Big Sur Cliffs felt like Hawaii looks.
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Campfire Wine.JPG 2006-06-07
Carmel Bird Island.JPG
Carmel Bird Island.JPG 2006-06-09
Campfire Wine 2
The two compliment each other well, a good suggestion for that smokey aftertast goes good with Salmon or Polish Sausage
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Big Sur Wide.JPG 2006-06-08
Big Sur Tunnel.JPG
Big Sur Tunnel.JPG 2006-06-08
Cabrillo National Monument.JPG
Cabrillo National Monument.JPG 2006-06-05
Big Sur Kim Cove.JPG
Big Sur Kim Cove.JPG 2006-06-08
Big Sur Falls Wide.JPG
Big Sur Falls Wide.JPG 2006-06-08
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Big Sur Falls 2.JPG 2006-06-08
Big Sur Cove.JPG
Big Sur Cove.JPG 2006-06-08
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Big Sur 1.JPG 2006-06-08
Carmel Cove.JPG
Carmel Cove.JPG 2006-06-09
Big Sur Falls MS
A waterfall right into the ocean.
Kim at Work
Nice pose. Kim's really working, as if anyone doubted. I "volunteered" at the marathon never saw one before, pretty cool
Kim at Work 2.JPG
Kim doesn't know I took this one
Charter Boats
First thing we did in San Diego was get some fresh fish tacos at a little place outside of all the charter boats.
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Redwoods Caves Crater
Golden Gate Driving
Back at the Golden Gate, yes I'm driving and taking a picture, safe, no, but I made it so far.
Redwood Camp
This was the thickest, dampest camping spot yet. You couldn't cut a way through, it gave me lots of privacy though.
Flower Redwood CU
This is me trying not to forget my photography skills, um yeah. It portrays the delicate massiveness of the redwoods
Crescent City View
Not the most spectacular city there is, but the closest to Redwood National Park.
Bug through Creek
We all know the bug has the heart of a jeep, they get confused often, but through rivers? Yes we went through 3 of them
Elk 4
Redwood National Park is also an Elk preserve. They were all around the area for viewing.
Elk and Bug
They didn't even mind the crazy yellow bug nearby.
Fern Canyon Above
The reason I drove through 3 rivers was to get to Fern Canyon, seen here from above. It was so wet, ferns everywhere
Ferns Everywhere
Fern Canyon from below
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Fern Canyon Wide.JPG 2006-06-11
Bug and Redwoods
Just because they are smaller than Sequoias doesn't mean they are small, as the bug demonstrates here
Big Tree
This one was just called "the big tree", not the tallest of the redwoods, not as massive as a sequoia, but taller
Caves 23
Onto an unscheduled stop, Oregon Caves National Monument. Who knew it was an hour from Tim's house (where I stayed)
Caves 30 Up stairs
Yes, its dark underground, here's my tour group going up stairs in the cave.
Caves Paradise Lost
We hiked an extra tall, dead end ladder to get here. Its called Paradise Lost, just cool rock formations.
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Me at Caves
Trust me, I'm in the caves, told you it was dark underground.
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Oregon Tree FOg
Once we exited it was so foggy, I was basically inside the clouds, not quite floating on clouds or on cloud 9, but still
Crater Lake 4 Island
On to Crater Lake National Park. It was a 2 hour drive to find out most of the park was closed due to snow, yes snow.
Crater Lake 2
The lake used to be a Mountain/volcano It errupted before our time and imploaded on itself The snow melted and filled it
Ship Sails Rock
They say when the wind blows just right it looks like these rocks are a ship sailing.
Lake and Rock
There's no beaches, except on the little island. For a long time there was no way to get to the water, just cliffs.
Snow at Crater
I waited an hour for this road to open to exit different from where I entered. A drift collapsed onto the road.
Me at Crater Lake
After this picture, the fog rolled in and you couldn't see any of the lake, good timing, remember its June 15th, brrrr
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Rearview Mirror Snow
Yeah, Crater Lake was a lot of driving and not much else since most of it was unaccesible, but it was still neat.
Northwest
Astoria Bridge
This place is more famous than you think. Remember the bridge behind the girls house in Short Circuit? The Goonies...
Astoria Column
Kindergarden Cop, Mutant Turles 3, the Ring 2, all filmed here. I am a big Goonies fan, felt like I was in the movie
Clouds at Mt Rainer
After Astoria, OR, it was over the bridge to Washington. Mt. Rainer was on the way to Seattle, but was a disappointment
Box Canyon Bridge
The last pic wasn't even mt Rainer. I salvaged three pics total from this park, but I made up for it later
Narada Falls CU
Under the clouds I found a waterfall, like I haven't seen one before. But, after Rainer, it cleared up, strange enough
Safeco Field- Mariners
Onto Seattle, and what's that I see? Its sun, wow didn't know you could find that here. I loved this city.
Pyramid Brewery
It may have helped that I found a brewery, suggested by my last boss, to start the day with, across from the stadium.
Sunny in Seattle
Believe you me...
Famous Fish Market
Pike Place Market, famous for their fish throwers. Didn't see any fly when I was there, but there's more in the morning
Beer Fest and Needle
The next day I did the museum and touristy things, and alas, I ran into the Washington Brewers Fest. How lucky can I get
Big Ducks
I also took the Duck tour of the city, on land and water. Lots of quacking too.
Skyline Full.JPG
Seattle from the duck ride
Floating Houses
Each one is worth a million or more. Hard to get one of these and they are not going to build any more. They were cool
Ferry CU
The bug and I decided that's enough city for 2 days, time for Olympic National Park. It started with a ferry ride
foggy road
Across the bay to find this. Yes, thats the road, with no guard rails, in the fog, but I thought it was neat.
foggy trees
At sea level it was clear, here it was through the clouds, and the top was semi-clear too thankfully.
Olympic fog and ocean
Normally a great viewpoint, you can see where the clouds stop right at the ocean.
olympic valley mts
At the top you could see a bit further, but Olympic Park is so big, I maybe saw fraction of it. Mt Olympus is there
flower daisy clear
Since I could see much in the distance, I focused on things much closer, and did a "study" of the mountain flowers of WA
flower pink clear.JPG
flower pink clear.JPG 2006-06-18
flower orange mts.JPG
flower orange mts.JPG 2006-06-18
water on leaves 2.JPG
water on leaves 2.JPG 2006-06-18
Flower Daisy Dark Cascades.JPG
Flower Daisy Dark Cascades.JPG 2006-06-19
Cascades Valley dark plants
Another unsceduled stop, North Cascades National Park. Bet you never heard of it. An awesome secret of national parks.
Lake Diable Cascades Wide
A 9 hour trip from Seattle to Idaho, I took the long scenic way, but it was worth it.
cascades green river
Yes, it is really that green. Very unique. Lots of waterfalls here and lakes and mountains too.
Factory 2 CU.JPG
Factory 2 CU.JPG 2006-06-20
Blue Cheese and Bug.JPG
Blue Cheese and Bug.JPG 2006-06-20
Factory 1.JPG
Factory 1.JPG 2006-06-20
Glacier Yellowstone Rockies
Flower Red Nerd Plant
Glacier National Park, Montana, for the coldest place I've been so far, it has the most flowers as you will see I like
St Mary Lake 3
It also has lots of lakes and mountains, what an original idea. They are a bit different though, more rocky
Flower Purple Mt.JPG
Flower Purple Mt.JPG 2006-06-21
Glacier 12
Go figure, the rocky mountains being rocky, who'd a thought it?
Flower White 2.JPG
Flower White 2.JPG 2006-06-21
Rapids Sherburne Lake.JPG
Rapids Sherburne Lake.JPG 2006-06-21
Flower Yellow moth
1 out of 10 moths agree flowers are good
Glacier Mt Valley.JPG
Glacier Mt Valley.JPG 2006-06-21
Flower Purple Bells.JPG
Flower Purple Bells.JPG 2006-06-21
Logan Pass People
The pass was still closed for snow and road damage, but we made it to the top of the East side. Skipped the west side
Mountain Snow
We, I stayed with a college friend, Mike and his wife Genny who live on a reservation outside the park, cool huh
Goose Island.JPG
Goose Island.JPG 2006-06-21
Glacier 10.JPG
Glacier 10.JPG 2006-06-21
Bear and Cubs
On the way out I spotted this mother and two cubs, go me. The second cub is barely visible in the background
Yellowstone Flower Geysers Sun
I arrived at 7pm at the entrance, 45 minutes more to my campground, on the way found a group of geysers.
Geysers and pathway
Here they are at sunset with the walkway in the middle,
Geyser and sun glare
oooo, more geysers and sun
mamoth Springs 2
the mamoth springs area of the park has more color and oddities, here's one of the many springs
Mamoth Springs.JPG
The different colors, which you don't see here, are actually living micro-organisms that like the boiling water
Cleopatra Spring 2 wide
the color of this one made it stick out nicely, ooo another spring
Mamoth tall springs 3
can't remember the specific name of this one but it was a high one with water streaming down the sides
Faithful Sunset 10
For two nights I went to old faithful at sunset, one I waited for it to erupt, one I just took odd pictures, here's one
Faithful Sunset 2
Here's another
faithful sunset red 2
here's the second night, you can see more clouds makes the sunset neater, old faithful always has steam coming out
me at faithful 3
After have a drink this was as fake of a smile I could pull off waiting for it to errupt
erupts
here's it finally errupting, now aren't we glad we waited? uh oh yeah, ooooo, ahhhhhh, woooowww
bug and springs
the next day, another spring, oooo, ahhh, you can see my little bug way in the back fog
Elk by road 2
get out of my way stupid animals, um I mean, here's an innocent elk on the side of the road
buffalo pair of 2
and you too, I have places to go... I mean wow, aren't they magnificent
Buffalo by road 2
Don't give me that look, I can take you, hit me with your best shot
Buffalo cars 2
before I hit you and make you a buffalo and bug sandwich
sulpher cauldrom and buffalo 3.JPG
That's more like it, sit next to the smelly sulpher cauldrons where you belong
lower falls 2
This is the waterfall I threatened the police officer I was going to jump off of and he didn't take me seriuosly, loser
Falls and flowers
ooooo, its water and its falling, oh wow, yellow flowers. this is a different falls, I didn't plan on jumping off of
Yellowstone Canyon.JPG
Yellowstone Canyon.JPG 2006-06-23
Tetons Wide
Onto the grand tetons, I just drove through them on the way to colorado. They look the same from every angle
teton 2 reflection
same tetons, but with a good reflection, which way is up?
Indian painbrush cu
That's the name of this flower. Since the tetons looked the same, I took lots of flower pictures
flower yellow big.JPG
flower yellow big.JPG 2006-06-25
flowers purple.JPG
flowers purple.JPG 2006-06-25
teton reflection
I like them better on their side
water and grass 2
On to Rocky Mountain national Park. Oooo, a lake, with water in it too. Go figure they'd have mountains in Colorado
bear lake 4 rock.JPG
bear lake 4 rock.JPG 2006-06-26
nymph reflection 1
which way is up? does it matter?
nymph reflect 2
Reflections are cool