Tuesday - Driving Around

We stopped for a picnic lunch at the Nez Perce picnic area. We had a pretty view of the stream and a few birds flying around hoping for leftovers. We continued to just before Madison and looped back on Firehole Canyon drive to see the falls. The we headed as far down the road toward Norris until we hit the roadblock for the construction beyond the Tuff Cliffs. We headed back and out the west entrance road to West Yellowstone, then decided to continue our drive down into Idaho before looping back into Montana along Hebgen Lake.

c090929-200128 — Bird at the picnic stop

c090929-203912 — Small creek near the bottom of Firehole Canyon

c090929-205004_5_6hdri_tonemapped — Firehole Falls

c090929-210138_40_41hdri_tonemapped — Firehole canyon just below the cascades

c090929-210842_3_4hdri_tonemapped — Firehole Cascades at the top of the canyon

c090929-212834 — Tuff Cliff through the forest that was only partially damaged in the 1988 fire

c090929-214122_24_25_36_37_38hdri_tonemapped — Bath Spring

k090929-224007 — Charles and the penguin entering Idaho

k090929-225732 — Charles and the penguin entering Montana

c090929-230608 — A small herd of antelope

c090929-230720 — Male and two female antelope

c090929-231832 — The natural landslide-dam that formed Earthquake Lake

k090929-232746 — The story of Earthquake Lake

k090929-233354 — Sign marking the spot where people camping in the Madison river valley had to find high-ground above the rising water

k090929-233946 — Another story of the earthquake