We took another trip into Yellowstone (we’re here for a month so we’ll be going into the park many times) and on this trip we saw even more geysers as well as Mammoth Hot Springs.  Mammoth Hot Springs is a weirdly beautiful place.  The formations look a lot like what we’ve seen in caves.  They were formed by hot springs up the side of a large hill that spewed out chemicals such as calcite that flowed down over the hillside, sometimes forming pools and then overflowing to form terraces.

We also saw a black bear – it was a ways down a hill so we didn’t have a close encounter but I have a couple of pictures of it.

We almost saw a grizzly too – we rounded a bend in the road and saw lots of people stopped at the side of the road with cameras and binoculars out. We asked what they were looking at since we didn’t see anything and were told a grizzly had just crossed a meadow but was out of view now.  Darn!  We also saw more elk and antelope…and we saw lots of bison again but we have so many photos of them we didn’t take anymore.  We laughed at people who were stopped at the road to take telephoto photos of one bison way on the other side of a meadow and wanted to tell them “Hey, head south over to the meadows near Old Faithful – there are HUGE herds with babies all over the roads down there!”  But, we didn’t.

Here are pictures from this trip: