Monday, July 27th

Hello again! Jim and I didn't start work until later on Monday so we took a couple hour hike around the
Upper Geyser Basin and wanted to share some of the pictures. The river is the Firehole River. It runs right by
the Old Faithful complex and has lots of geysers that empty into it. There is a place farther up river that you can
swim in it that is warmed by the geysers but it is closed right now due to high water. I'm sure we'll give that a
try later on this summer.

The first geyser is Grotto. It goes off at irregular intervals so we didn't catch that one erupting.


This is Morning Glory Pool. The colors are just beautiful. It goes about 700 feet deep and the posted sign said that people throw so much stuff into it over the summer that the Park Service has to clean it out every year. When this happens the water gets real cloudy and you can't see the colors. I had a customer that came in Monday afternoon and bought 24 post cards with this picture on it because her boyfriend had just proposed to her out there and they were going to send them to their family to let them know.


This is Giant Geyser. It is also errupts irregularly. It erupted 50 times in 2009 and only once in 2010. When
it does it last for about 24 hours and puts out over 1 million gallons of water. I would love to catch that one!!

Just an idea of how many people are walking on the boardwalks almost every day.
More later
Ann & Jim