Just Plain Chips

Here are some of the pictures that I took at Yellowstone Park.

The first is of Morning Glory Pool, which is way more spectacular in person than it is in this picture.

Here is Castle Geyser going off.

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My weekend started out on an up note…on Friday. My friends Eric and Sean were heading down to Yellowstone National Park. They just wanted to go to drive around and take pictures. Both of them are avid amatuer photographers. One thing that they didn’t have, was a National Parks Pass. Guess who does? That’s right, me.

So Eric asked if I had any interest in going down. Though I’m sure he asked me not because of the pass, but because they enjoy my company and thought that I might want to come. The problem lay in the fact that I had work on Friday. This was easily remedied by deciding to take a “mental health day” (my time card says sick leave) and head down to the Park with my friends and take some pictures.

On our way out of town it was pouring, we were hopeful that the rain would abate by the time we were an hour and a half south of Bozeman. For the first hour (down the Gallatin Canyon) our hopes were not realized. Luckily Sean (and indeed Eric and I as well) had driven the canyon 100s of times and was not nervous driving the twisty route on a rain slicked road. By about the time we reached West Yellowstone, the rain had subsided, which made the outlook on the day much brighter (though not literally, the sky was still pretty overcast).

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