what's up guys welcome to the channel if you are new here, we are trekking pals Habiba
and Alex we're amateur hikers and backpackers and we create video content
every Tuesday howdy howdy
in the previous episode of winter in Yellowstone we took you with us on an
adventure hiking the fountain paint pot trail within the lower geyser basin we
enjoyed and learned about four different hydrothermal features including geysers
mud pots fumaroles and hot springs in today's episode we will take you up to
the gorgeous terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs good morning we are about to
leave Mammoth Hot Springs Lodge here and getting ready to start our adventure for
the day
our first stop is going to be this cool spot here this is an old picture
this is also an alt feature and you can see the ladies with their stylish
dresses fancy today we're gonna also snowshoe and this is what we're doing
we're here at the mammoth hot spring hotel now we're gonna walk this way this
way this way and then you're gonna do the upper traverses with all the we're
trying out these face masks today we're headed to Mammoth Hot Springs today
we're gonna go do the main chair send the upper terrace you get these comfort
masks today to try to keep the wind and breathing from fogging up our glasses at
the same time beaver ponds trill this is a nice walk okay we've got this cool
look in the rock on the right and then the trusses are straight in front of me
so apparently this thing that I called cool rock is a dormant hot spring cone
and it's called Liberty Cap I do takes a little bit to get it to floor doesn't
fog up here so these are the trusses in front of us - had strength trusses
parts of the trust are covered in snow which makes it a little bit more
beautiful
now we're gonna head out to do the after trust loop so we realized that the
snowshoes are not going to work on the boardwalk because there are a couple of
stairs coming ups and yes other thing here we're just gonna walk up the
boardwalks and once we get to the start of the loop then we'll have to put them
back in I'm gonna show you where we put them no Alex do you wanna turn that's
one of the reasons I love these Osprey bags they have this clip here so we
if we overextend the elastic I'm sure they'll sell us some other elastic at
some point - so we're doing here is Minerva truss this is what it looks like
when it's not covered in snow and this is what it looks like right now
it was named after the Roman goddess of art you know wow this view is
spectacular
this year is probably a better evil oops oh you never god this is slippery more
steps actually the SD card on the GoPro is full even though I deleted the
folders this morning it seems like the metadata I was still there so I'm just
switching to Alex's Google phone and this view in front of me is very unique
this boardwalk going up is pretty tricky we don't have spikes to help with the
ascent but you can see people kind of just relying on the edges as a handhold
and then pretty much using the the edges so the stairs here except pretty flat so
my technique is 1 foot here my hand on this on this handhold and then just find
a way up
definitely the GoPro is very practical and easier to handle this type of
situations let's do this
know that I think the steps down downstairs with a little bit trickier
this one seems to be okay here's Alex going down a lot easier let's just put
in his snowshoes on because apparently that points on no foot traffic is a low
that we do have
that's the sign for no foot traffic they even have fake grass before you start so
we start with the upper loop to us we got you a point here
and I kind of decided that I'm not really up for it it's getting a little
bit late and I still want to get to the next stop and enjoy it and kind of
unwind and I know if we were to do this we are going to be a little bit short on
time so and without we are skipping the upper Jarrah's loop so and I hope that
you guys enjoyed today's episode of winter in Yellowstone and if you did
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