7/4 Yellowstone, part 2

I spent the night in Cody. The next morning, I discovered how beautiful that road was leading back to the Park.

Back in Yellowstone:

And this is why you should lock up your food in bear proof containers.

This was cool to see. Two bull elk enjoying the water.

Old Faithful doing her thing.

A lot of potential energy underneath these grounds.

I read that approximately a dozen people have been scalded to death because they foolishly got to close to these pools and fell in.

This pool is called "Morning Glory." Beautiful and deadly.

Leaving Yellowstone to the south, heading towards the Grand Tetons.

7/3 Yellowstone, part 1

Yellowstone is such an amazing combination of raw natural beauty and danger. Even though the scenery was calming and relaxing, those feelings were sometimes short-lived; getting close to a buffalo or a bear (even from a car) can be slightly intimidating, and when viewing the countless geysers and hot springs, I was reminded that the world beneath us is such an unstable entity. There are theories out there that state that Yellowstone's underground super volcano could blow at any time.