Monday, 29 January 2018
More from our day in Yellowstone.
More from our day in Yellowstone.
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| Specimen Ridge |
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| Looking up the Lamar Valley. These are the willows where we saw the moose. |
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| Cottonwood tree along the Lamar River. |
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| Late in the afternoon, 5 of us (the x-c skiing crew) took an optional excursion to Boiling River. A half-mile very muddy trail leads from the parking lot to the only place in the park you can bathe in the hot water. |
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| Boiling River is actually a very short creek that leads from a hot spring to the Gardner River. The hot inflow is about 165°F - dangerously hot. But when it mixes with the very cold Gardner River, you can (hopefully) find a sweet spot between being too hot and too cold. |
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| We were able to find a reasonable spot that varied from slightly-too-hot to definitely-too-cold. The air temperature was in the high 30s (F) with a brisk breeze, but the experience was quite comfortable. Even getting out wet and having to walk about 5 minutes to our clothes wasn't that chilling. |
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| Fogged glasses were a challenge. |
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| I'm not sure if that's Dan's reaction to too hot or too cold! |
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| Our tour guides, Megan and Melissa, enjoyed the dip. |
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| Foot selfie. |
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