Day 36 (Thursday 7/26/12)- Yellowstone, WY

Yellowstone is amazingly home to 2/3 of the worlds geysers. Today we hiked the Biscuit Basin trail in Yellowstone which takes you along many of the park's geysers and at the end Old Faithful awaits. Trying to time things perfectly and see all of the geysers erupting (with vague clues like "may erupt between 2p and 6p) is near impossible but we still saw some breathtaking sites along the way.

One of my favorites was the Morning Glory geyser pool that had a distinctive green tint to it. As Isaiah explained (from the sign he read) the pool is green because idiotic tourists throw things in there. Though it makes for a cool color it is also frustrating how some people have to ruin things. We did see a couple of the geysers erupt along the path and of course the mother of all eruptions was Old Faithful. Around 2:50p she erupted,spraying water high enough into the sky that it looked like it touched the clouds.

After getting back to our campsite we settled in for the evening.

One of the geyser pools (not the sky)

One of the geyser pools

A geyser pool with a tree growing out of it

One of the geyser pools

Old Faithful

Morning Glory geyser pool