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Crazy paint job on a radio station van in Bozeman, MT
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Office building at our RV park in West Yellowstone
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Neat view of a valley with wildflowers
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Evidence of the 1988 fire and places that the fire inexplicably missed
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Tower Falls, on the Yellowstone River
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Named (we think) for those "towers" in the canyon
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From the top of Tower Falls
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Good look at a tower
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Planning an outing (or something)
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Color-coded Yamahas
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The original Old Fathful General Store. Neat burls
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Snow caps across Yellowstone Lake
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Purple flowers
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This misty, pinkish grass grows in many of the warm, wet areas
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Sandbar in river with one white pelican
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Yellow flowers
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Some places the river just meanders
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Purple and white flowers - Gentian
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More yellow flowers
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Gibbon Falls, on the Gibbon River
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The Lower Falls in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
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It's white water all the way
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Trees with spiral grain - cool
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The canyon is about 800 ft deep at the deepest
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It really is pretty grand . . .
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The colors change as the lighting changes
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That's the lower falls - the longest drop of the two falls in the canyon
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These rocks are great places for soaring birds
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There's a 600 ft drop in this trail to the brink of the lower falls - 3/8ths mile down about 20 switchbacks
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The river just drops off the edge of the cliff
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Judy found a double rainbow
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We swapped picture taking with another family
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Closer you get to the edge, the better the view
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Another rainbow
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Judy's acrophobia was kicking in pretty good
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And she conquers it! But still hangs on . . .
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Waiting in the shade before the climb back up
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Neat tree roots holding up a stone
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The river between the upper and lower falls
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Just above the upper falls
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Another rainbow at the upper falls
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It's not as dramatic as the lower, but the climb down is a lot shorter
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The Yellowstone River is one of the main tributaries of the Missouri River
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From the other side" of the canyon . . .
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The views are always great
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Can you see the osprey nest? it's dead center
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The cascade thru the canyon is impressive
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Those sandy/rocky cliffs are spectacularly colored
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This is near Tower Falls
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The strata of the cliffs are very interesting
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Almost looks like somebody blasted it away
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Must have been multiple eruptions to make those layers
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Some unnamed cascades on the Yellowstone River
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Volcanic deposits are about as unusual as they come
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There are hot springs at the base of that hill
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There's a petrified tree in the park - fenced so people can't steal any more pieces of it
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The name is "Twin Falls", but we counted three . . .
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A real rainbow
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Dark rain clouds over Mammoth Hot Springs
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Those cliffs are just awesome
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We have a thing for snow on mountains
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Another waterfall on the Gibbon River
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The start of a beautiful sunset
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Oh yeah . .
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We had the RV washed and waxed - cleanest it's been since we bought it
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More waterfalls
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This lily-filled lake straddles the Continental Divide
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One outlet goes to the Pacific, the other to the Gulf of Mexico
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And the flowers are pretty nifty as well
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Lewis Falls on the Lewis River near the south end of the park
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One evening we saw this smoke cloud above the park
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It was obviously burning within the park
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Sure looks like a lot of smoke to us
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But the park folks apparently weren't too worried
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In the Firehole River Gorge
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Another waterfall
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There's just something about rushing water
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The river is fed by geysers and is quite warm
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Swimming is allowed at just this one location. But it also happens elsewhere
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There must have been 300 people at the swimming hole
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At the entrance of the gorge, more cascades