Fairy Falls, grand prismatic, and bison

Day one and we were out the door and on the road by 7 AM. Yes that’s early for me. We drove over to grand prismatic where we are going to do the ferry Falls hike. Along the hike there is a short offshoot where you can go to the grand prismatic overlook. We started the hike and quickly got to the overlook. Unfortunately, it was pretty cloudy so the grand prismatic view was a bit disappointing. It looked nothing like the photos that The you typical.

We carried on with our hike to the Files. Round-trip was about 5 miles. After we passed the overlook, we got to a section where they had a big sign about bit frequent bear activity in the area. We’re both carrying a canna bear spray, but we were still on the lookout for any bears. The falls weren’t flowing very fast as I had hoped they would be. They were still beautiful. We turned around and headed back and discussed if we were going to stop at the overlook again and see if it looked any better. The sun was starting to come out a little bit, so there was a good chance.

Well, we got to the overlook with the sun was shining and we decided to climb up the hill to the overlook again and I’m really glad we did. Wow the view was awesome. Now the gram prismatic really looks like it does in all the pictures.

After the hike, we headed over to the Madison area where we did a quick little drive-through between two big herds of bison. They were on either side of the road and there had to be at least 100 of them. This time they all had babies with them. They were so cute. And so tiny. Of course in Yellowstone whenever they’re bison there’s always a bison jam so it took us a bit to get through this area, but it was fun to watch the Buffalo.Read more