Howdy Alex? Howdy Beebs?
Hey guys welcome to the channel! In last week's episode we shared with you our
first time experience cross country sking in beautiful Yellowstone National Park
we did a lot of other activities and we stopped by Castle geyser to enjoy this
extraordinary eruption and the unstoppable then we wrapped up our day
with a tasty Valentine's Day dinner. So if you want to see how we spend the day
in the park then just keep on watching.
After waking up in the morning and having breakfast we immediately headed
to the Gift Shop of Old Faithful Lodge where we were staying for the night for
one of our favorite travel traditions. Every time we go to a new place Alex and
I send two postcards one for my mom in Morocco and one for Alex's mom in the
East Coast and we really enjoy writing for them from all the new places that we
get to visit. For today's adventure we decided to change things up a little
bit and go with Snow Shoeing this time for the first time as well
We are at the snow lodge, we are going to cross the street, walk around Old Faithful
geyser and then we are going to snowshoe all the way to observation point and then get up
to Solitary geyser. This is supposed to be a wooded area, again in the woods
and then we get back here walk on the board walk and then we gets back to our lodge
and if we want to obviously we can hang a right at any point and go up to some
other areas which probably you'll do yeah it depends on how much time we have
we need to be back here at the lodge around 1:30 because the the coach or the
snow vehicle is leaving around 2 o'clock or 1:45 I believe. So that's that..
we are very excited! let's do it!
Good and tight? yes!
we're going to stop by Old Faithful here again. We've got some
new walkie-talkies and we just want to try them for fun not that we need them
for this trailer yeah we're just want to see and make
sure that they work. Here is the sign for beautiful Old faithful geyser the reason it was called
Old Faithful is because it was predictable in terms of time the time it
erupted and goes off and you can see it there so it was very predictable meaning
you know every nine minutes it's being the same cadence for a long time now so
that's where the name yep the boardwalk
would say in the background we did take a video yesterday of the eruption so
that's another video if you want to check it hold faithful alright
it's Old Faithful geyser and then we're gonna switch you know there's just a
folks to the right and then left we're gonna go right and we're aiming
for all observationally it which is right there we're crossing the river
here and you can see the steam up there from this from the fumaroles alright
very very serial and that's a sign of observation points half a mile walk this
way
we're going up no joking couple of switchbacks and it's amazing how
different it feels with the with the snowshoes feels like the snow trucks I
would say she's like it's more demanding anyway
this is you through the woods and this sign is indicating the observation point
goes right about 10.1 mile so let's hire you guys are upper Geyser Basin to the
left use a couple of people on the trail either snowshoe boots
there are signs or marks throughout the way this one here in front of me a
couple of them Charlie's very straightforward the view
here to my right is opening up to the lodge the cabins and total eat you
beautiful unfaithful
rock formations beautiful Alex is experiencing the difficulty here with
his water - it's freezing it seems locked - like an idiot well it was a
little frozen yeah it froze on me yesterday - and the recommendation is to
keep it inside your jacket if you can that's what I'm doing here really it's
just a mouthpiece that'll freeze early on mine is not freezing yet so I'm not
that much worried about it and I keep rubbing it between my hands from time to
time this is a beautiful view points from here I love it we can help the park
track the change in landscape I will definitely do that let's take a picture
to social media make these hearts - all right so we're coming down from the
observation point now a nice little small viewing area I get to see a couple
of the geysers nice lay of the land it's elevated enough that you get a good
view we're heading down now though we're gonna rejoin with the boardwalk and then
we'll probably just check out a couple of other geysers with time we ever
minute it's a really pretty hike down through the trees though highly
recommended really really pretty
so we're coming here to a solitary geyser it's also called solitaire it's a
little secluded how are you feeling cookie and as you see the mineral very
visible is wonderful yellow colors and this one is supposed to erupt about four
feet every five to seven minutes it seems these views are just magical yeah
oh yeah that's true just gonna sit here wait for it to erupt take a snack or two
and get going did you try well anyway we saw this solitary guy here erupt about
ten minutes ago we've waited for an additional five
seven minutes Alex right yeah it says it's supposed to RuPt every five to
seven minutes it's been 10 minutes and 40 seconds since we saw it last don't go
what the water levels going down a little bit right now so maybe that's a
sign it all right let's give it ten nine eight seven six five cuatro tres dos yi
uno momento what for ocular GoPro better yeah there I guess
yeah geyser so he's soul eater now you could say
tell your friends about us hahahaha baby baby are you having fun
you started down here at the red trail do it all the way around we did the
observation point loop we went to the solitary geyser then we've got a little
adventure so we went way out this way then we realize we shouldn't be doing
that so we went back then we came back down here and now I'm looking at also
there's a bit of even our market there's
horrible so since we finished I don't want to burn myself ah boiling water
that can go up to 190 degrees and a lot of minerals and acid I don't wanna do
that
I can see a herd of bison again which is really cool you see all of them a bunch
of boys so we're coming a little close to a herd of bison here and I don't know
if it's smart to continue because we are
what do you think Alex
yeah so we're trying to just get a little bit closer and see across the
area so you and I once I don't think they're gonna break down the fence the
fence is open from one one spot for me where's the trail going sure goes up
across there I'm curious if those few ones pass a crew to pass through I think
we can keep going
no not very too close to Alex please please give very close and big I can't I
can't I can't take it Alex please let's go wait it off
it's too it's too close too close for me let's just wait it off until they go
somewhere else big one is very close it's not 100 feet sorry they're even
fucking are you kidding me what does that mean and can he jump the fence on
now huh is that 100 feet I walk on your left I'm really scared to Qaddafi how do
you know
I just wonderful hey you
I almost had a heart attack the Bison they head back crazy people here they
see the Bison and they go closer to the Bison they either care for their life
crazy people end up with crazy people
also this guy here Castle geyser is my favorite the eruption is so beautiful
yesterday and we saw a nice rainbows
it's snowing on you now you have a snow mustache
that's no stache so you run into a bit of a snafu hmm it's a bunch of bison
just walking on a trail up there where those we're gonna go to the right here
over the road on this trail right in front of us that seems to just kind of
scooch it back through there get to the main road and then we'll just walk in on
that's the trail you just cut this way
I think so maybe just because of the trail we're doing because we went out to
observation point oh yeah yeah both are fuck yeah
yes we did next year have a good day we are back to the lodge or I would say the
trailhead
today was definitely an adventure to remember on a personal level I felt like
I've pushed myself a little bit outside of my comfort zone especially with the
herd of bison being so close to the trail anyway we made it back to the
lodge right on time to end wined return our rentals and catch the snow coach to
leave the part and head back to Mammoth Hot Springs Lodge if you enjoyed today's
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alex and we'll see you soon on another adventure