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Side Trail toward the River

editor — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:00:00 +0000

If you turn left at Sawmill to cross the river and visit Castle Geyser, you’ll pass Churn Geyser not very active now but known to erupt to 10 feet (3 m). Scalloped and South Scalloped springs are on your right. The water deep down in Scalloped Spring reverberates in its cavern with a satisfying gurgle. The low water level was not Scalloped Spring’s normal state the spring was probably illegally induced to erupt at some time in the past. The cone high above the river to the right (downstream) is called Deleted Teakettle Geyser. Its strange moniker is due to

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Yellowstone Canyon Colors

editor — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:30:00 +0000

The colors in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone derive both from minerals and from living organisms. There are infinite shadings of yellow and orange, and also reds and pinks, off-whites, browns, greens, and black. Most of these colors result from the weathering of the rocks and from the upward passage of hot water and steam. Rainwater and the oxygen in the air break down the rhyolite that is the predominant rock of the canyon. At the same time, hot water and steam react with minerals in these rocks. Both processes convert some of the iron and other metals (such

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Yellowstone Lake Recreation

editor — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 07:00:00 +0000

Swimming in Yellowstone Lake is strongly discouraged, even forbidden at West Thumb. This is due to the extremely cold water after all, the lake’s elevation is nearly 8000 feet (3400 m). On a recent hot July day the surface water temperature behind Fishing Bridge Visitor Center was 55°F (13°C), but this was rare, and lakes like this one have colder layers beneath the surface. Signs at Bridge Bay are explicit: Warning water extremely cold. Survival time limited to twenty minutes. Boating is allowed from several launch sites, but motorboats are restricted to Grant Village and Bridge Bay Marina. Permits and

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Yellowstone Geyser Route Two: Castle and Daisy Geysers and an extension to Black Sand Pool

editor — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 04:30:00 +0000

NOTE: This is an approved bicycle route to the Grand Loop Road near Biscuit Basin about 2.5 miles (4 km) to the north. To reach Biscuit Basin, turn left on the northern trail to the Daisy Group, then turn immediately right (see the map, 83). C @ The 2.4 miles (4 km) round trip to view Castle and Daisy geysers on Geyser Route Two is paved and can be traversed by wheelchair or bicycle. You may shorten the distance a little by parking in the lot for the general store near Old Faithful Inn. The side trail past Daisy Geyser

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Yellowstone Extension to Black Sand Pool

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 23:30:00 +0000

Yellowstone Extension to Black Sand Pool 7 If you continue west where the two walkways around Daisy become one, you’ll see the white Pyramid (or White Throne), the cone of an extinct geyser, across the meadow to the north. At its base is small but active Pyramid Geyser. A little farther west is the almost perfectly circular Punch Bowl Spring. The center of this beautiful spring boils a foot or so above its rim, which is nearly 2 feet (0.6 m) in height. It overflows constantly, creating a colorful runoff channel. It’s a short distance to Black Sand Pool, the

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The Sources and the Plumbing Yellowstone

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:00:00 +0000

Snowmelt and rainfall provide the water by soaking into the ground locally and from the surrounding mountain ranges. The water flows deep into the geyser basin as groundwater, reaching many hundreds of feet (meters) below ground level, as shown in the diagram. The still-hot volcanic rocks found below Yellowstone’s geyser basins provide the source for heating the water. The rocks continually receive more heat where there is magma (molten rock) a few miles below. The plumbing that all geysers have consists of a vent connected to a narrow crack that goes down into the hot rocks, widening into chambers and

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Yellowstone Morning Glory Pool

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:30:00 +0000

Across the river from Seismic and from the trail, another very short-lived geyser, called Fantail Geyser for its angled eruptions, performed impressively for one spring and summer (1986), then almost not at all since. Beyond Atomizer, you’ll find oblong Gem Pool, which overflows constantly. East of Gem Pool and across the trail is Bear Den Spring, where, in spite of bubbling water at the bottom, a crawl space under the rock ledge served at least once (in 1958) as a bear’s winter home. After descending the hill, look toward the west (left), where Baby Daisy Geyser may be steaming. A

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Yellowstone Lake Hotel

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:00:00 +0000

S H Lake Hotel (called Lake Yellowstone Hotel by the concessionaire in recent years) suggests 1920s casual elegance. The Lake String Quartet has played in the sunroom during cocktail and dinner hours since 1999, the dining room (reservations required) has some of the best food in the park, and the entire hotel is the most carefully planned and comfortable of any in Yellowstone. The hotel also has a sit-down deli and a gift shop. From the Haynes Guide for 1912: Hotel at the Outlet. This spacious and elegantly appointed hotel tends greatly toward making Yellowstone Lake the resort par excellence

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Yellowstone Lake

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:30:00 +0000

No writer has better described Yellowstone Lake than did renowned naturalist John Muir in an Atlantic Monthly article of 1898: It is about twenty miles long and fifteen wide, and lies at a height of nearly 8000 feet above the level of the sea, amid dense black forests and snowy mountains. Around its winding, wavering shores, closely forested and picturesquely varied with promontories and bays, the distance is more than 100 miles_ It is full of trout, and a vast multitude of birds swans, pelicans, geese, ducks, cranes, herons, curlews, plovers, snipe feed in it and upon its shores; and

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West Thumb Geyser Basin

editor — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:00:00 +0000

Walking toward the lake from the parking lot, stay to the right to find the Thumb Paint Pots . The paint pots were named Mud Puffs originally and perhaps more appropriately. The mud is formed by the action of sulfuric acid in the water on the rock it passes through. Historically, the pastel colors here were reported to be remarkable. Now they are duller at best and, depending on recent rainfall, vary from appearing like a muddy pond to just a dry area with a few mounds. Seismograph and Bluebell pools, on a spur to the right, differ from each

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