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Map of our July, 2016, trip

8/13/2016

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While we were on our latest trip, we had APRS running on my ham radio and it captured our route.  Here is a picture of the route thanks to Google Earth.
On our trip, we logged just over 3000 miles pulling the trailer. So far, we have logged just over 12,000 miles with the trailer since we got it last May.
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Craters of the Moon National Monument

8/10/2016

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We left Grand Teton National Park this morning and started our three-day trip back home. But we knew we had one more place to visit that was almost on the way: Craters of the Moon National Monument. It is in southern Idaho, the only national park/monument in Idaho. And it was lots of fun.
If you know us, you know that we like to visit things natural, especially those that involve geology. Craters of the Moon is an area that is full of a variety of volcanic features like lava flows, cinder cones, and spatter things. This area used to be on top of the very same hotspot that is now under Yellowstone.  As time (in millions of years) has gone on, the hotspot has stayed in the same place but the continental crust (our land mass) has moved across it so that the hotspot has bubbled to the surface across a large arc of the US.


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Grand Teton National Park - Day 3

8/9/2016

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This was kind of a lazy day for us.  In the morning, we went to the Jenny Lake Overlook and hiked down the trail along the lakeshore to the Jenny Lake campground and back.  On this trail, you get a great view of the lake and the mountains that rise right up from it.  In fact, you are so close to them that you can't see the top of Grand Teton as it is hidden behind the closer peak on the way up to Grand Teton's summit.


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Grand Teton National Park - Day 2

8/8/2016

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Grand Teton National Park is a great place to see fabulous mountain peaks and lakes.  It doesn't have the range of short hikes we like to take these days but has lots of longer hikes, so it is not as great a place for a longer time.  We are here for two more days so we decided to take a leisurely time going around the driving tour.
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Today, the skies were much nicer.  Although there were some clouds at the peaks, we were able to occasionally see clear to the top of Grand Teton as well as other peaks.  


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Yellowstone to Grand Teton National Park

8/7/2016

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Our time in Yellowstone National Park was almost up.  Today, we are driving from Yellowstone to Grand Teton National Park, a leisurely 64 miles from our campsite in Yellowstone to our campsite in Grand Teton.
We stopped at West Thumb Geyser Basin as we departed from Yellowstone.  Although it is small compared to the other geyser basins in Yellowstone, it is really nice.  It is right on the shore of Yellowstone Lake, which became more understandable once we learned how the West Thumb bay on Yellowstone Lake was formed.  The lake itself was formed by glacier but West Thumb was a separate, much later caldera from a collapsed volcano, and is much deeper than the rest of the lake.  So you are where you might expect a hotspot to be, and you would be right. 


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Yellowstone National Park - 3

8/6/2016

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Today was geyser day at Yellowstone for us.  We toured the rest of the geyser basins around Old Faithful, the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins. We started at the Black Sand Basin which is about a mile from Old Faithful. I did my best to name these geysers and other hot features accurately, but probably got some of them wrong.  But as Jennifer said, we saw things that bubble, stink, and squirt.  And that just about sums up hot pools, fumaroles, and geysers.


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Yellowstone National Park - 2

8/5/2016

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I forgot to mention yesterday that we were slightly delayed while coming in to Yellowstone.  But now I can mention it again with a better photo of the bison that slowed us down.  Fortunately for us, he was on the other side of the highway.  Imagine the backup behind him in the other lane of traffic.  Shortly after I took this photo and drove slowly past the bison, the person in the car behind me left a few car lengths between him and me, and the bison took advantage of this to change lanes - into oncoming traffic.  That slowed down both lanes.
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Later in the day, as we were returning to our campsite, we encountered another bison strolling along the side of the road.  Then as we were driving in the same vicinity as the first bison of the day (BOTD), Jennifer saw another out in a meadow.  That didn't slow traffic too much except for getting around all the cars who wanted to see better for themselves.


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Yellowstone National Park - 1

8/4/2016

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We arrived last night in Yellowstone NP after a very long day of driving.  We drove 487 miles in 10 hours to go from Glacier NP to Yellowstone NP.  We try to drive no more than 400 miles in a day, but we didn't want to spend an extra day traveling for 87 miles, so we made it through the long day.
 We decided to start by going directly to Old Faithful and see Old Faithful, of course, and some of the other geothermal activity in the area.  There is a lot of it. In addition to Old Faithful, which we saw erupt twice, we walked through Geyser Hill and its many features, and after a bit of a walk, we walked back to the village area to have lunch and go back to camp.  


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Glacier National Park - East side - 3

8/3/2016

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Today, we drove to Many Glacier, a valley in the northeast park of Glacier National Park.  I assume it was named because at one time, there were many glaciers there.  Today, many have disappeared although there are still some to see and to hike to. We didn't hike to any glaciers today because of the distance.  We did hike to Redrock Falls, which were much closer and a hike we felt we could do.  And we did.  The trail takes you through a forest and past two lakes.  Redrock Falls enters at the end of the second lake, strangely named Redrock Lake.  Where did they get that name?


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Glacier National Park - East side - 2

8/2/2016

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Today wasn't as great a day of exploring as yesterday.  We got a later start and found that many of the parking lots for the hikes we wanted to take were full, so we had to drive around to find spaces.  Even the St Mary Visitor Center lot was full so we had to hunt for a spot, which we found.


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    Bill Dornbush

    Retirement is great.  We bought a travel trailer and are exploring National Parks.  (Actually, we bought one and sold it and bought a second one better suited to us.  It happens...)  And I have time to do some woodworking projects and things around the house.  And now I have gotten interested in ham radio so there goes any free time.

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