Jellystone

Well ok, we didn't see Yogi and Boo Boo but we did go to Yellowstone and spend a couple of nights in the historic Old Faithful Inn. That was quite a treat even though the room didn't have a bathroom and you had to walk down the hall to take a shower, it was still a great experience. This place opened to visitors in 1904 and the way it is built with unfinished logs made it a very special place. Since all the recent pictures I had seen of this Inn were during the fire suppression efforts in 1988, I was really interested to see how the forest has recovered in 20 years.
I was on those fires of 1988 but I never got to see this area since I was up in the Silver Gate, Cooke City area on the North East part of the park.


The weather on Monday when we left was really nice. It was in the 70's up at Mammoth and long sleeve shirts weren't necessary even though there was still a lot of snow in the higher country. Some people were complaining about the heat but Karen and I were enjoying every minute of it since it's been so cold this spring.



There were some roads and trails that were closed and they just happened to be places I wanted to see to, so that wasn't very good, but all in all this was a fabulous trip and the crowds were much less than they will be before long.

We took a different route home going down through Jackson Wyoming and by the Teton Range. That last picture was taken on the road to Jenny lake and those mountains down there were very impressive.