โSep-21-2014 01:53 PM
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โOct-03-2014 10:46 AM
newk wrote:soos wrote:
We found it took 3 days just to figure out the rhythm of the animals and tourists. Animals are out around 6 am. we were driving by 5 am. looking for bears and wolves. tourists arrive from town at lunch time. we were back at camp by then....
DING DING DING
We have a winner!
Most of my trips to Yellowstone, at least the most enjoyable ones, were in search of nature photos. We'd get up early and be on the road well before dawn, set up our gear at a specified spot, then shoot from pre-sunrise until 9-10. Then we'd head back to camp, have brunch, maybe take a nap, then head out in search of the spots where we wanted to take sunset and sunrise photos for the next day. An hour or two before sunset we'd be set up again, waiting for the just-right light. Head back to camp in the dark, take a nap, then start it all over again.
I spent an afternoon photographing a beaver. (We became friends!) Another one photographing a moose; I enjoyed a 3-hour lunch with my camera and a family of trumpeter swans. I also enjoy fly fishing and have spent many a day on some of the park's blue ribbon trout streams -- tying flies that "match the hatch" and pulling in literally hundreds of pounds of wild and beautiful trout.
To enjoy Yellowstone, really enjoy it, you must slow down and let it move around you. Rushing to see this or that? Heck, you may as well be in an amusement park.
As for the crowds, here's a little-known secret. (Don't tell anyone.) There are no crowds in Yellowstone if you do your sightseeing from 6-10 a.m and 6-10 p.m. From 10 a.m - 6 p.m. go back to camp. Make love to your special other. Or just make lunch. Take a nap. Phase II of the daily Yellowstone experience is only hours away.
โOct-03-2014 10:19 AM
Francesca Knowles wrote:dodge guy wrote::B
WOW! the OP used a big spoon to stir the pot! and the contents are still stirring! LOL
Coming soon:
"Rushmore, phooey- there's better sculpture in my kids' sandbox!"
โOct-01-2014 07:38 AM
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โSep-30-2014 09:16 PM
soos wrote:
We found it took 3 days just to figure out the rhythm of the animals and tourists. Animals are out around 6 am. we were driving by 5 am. looking for bears and wolves. tourists arrive from town at lunch time. we were back at camp by then....
โSep-27-2014 01:24 PM
โSep-26-2014 03:02 PM
โSep-26-2014 01:58 PM
TexasShadow wrote:
There's a certain fascination with being on a crusty top of something like a ginormous pressure cooker filled with melted rock and knowing it can blow. At any time:)
Other than that, I like the scenery etc better down in the Tetons.
โSep-26-2014 01:34 PM
dodge guy wrote::B
WOW! the OP used a big spoon to stir the pot! and the contents are still stirring! LOL
โSep-26-2014 11:04 AM
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โSep-24-2014 11:33 AM
rexlion wrote:
I would like to ask those of you who think Yellowstone NP is worth 3, 4, 7 or even more days of a vacation, what do you find so interesting there? Maybe I'm missing it, and you can help me know what I should be seeing there.
I've been to Yellowstone twice. First time was at about age 12 with my parents. With a 22' Winnebago MH we drove across Canada (starting in Michigan), through Banff and Yoho, then to the Seattle area where we visited with my eldest brother for a day. Then we returned east through Montana, went into Yellowstone for a day, continued east to Mount Rushmore, and eventually back home to MI. After seeing the spectacular snow-capped Canadian Rockies grow ever larger as we moved west from Calgary, and then camping near the foot of Takkakaw Falls, and seeing Lake Louise and Emerald Lake and the hoodoos, the US Rockies seemed like plain vanilla by comparison.
Then about 14-15 years ago my wife and I towed a popup and spent a day in the Tetons (which I really liked and want to spend more time at), then a day in Yellowstone, then headed to Idaho to visit the same brother (who moved from WA eventually to ID). We saw Lewis Falls, the paint pots and steaming pools near Yellowstone Lake, the big waterfall in the canyon, some bison, a couple of bears, and Old Faithful. Old Faithful was not very faithful to us, BTW; when it was 40 minutes overdue we headed back toward the van, only to have it blow when we neared the parking lot. After one day we felt like we had seen about everything worth seeing. What did we miss?