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| Joe relaxing at camp with a book. | Picnic table with all our stuff spread out. | Very nice free campsite! | Propane heated shower even! | From the campground looking out at the ramp with our planes parked. | ||
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| Bicycles free for use. | Looking back at our campsite - fire pit with log seats, tent and picnic table on the right. | N3448U, Mooney, and N5871C at West Yellowstone. | Pilots Campground at KWYS, complete with wagons to haul your luggage from plane to campground! | N5871C at West Yellowstone. | ||
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| N3448U at West Yellowstone. | Gorgeous turboprop with one solo guy | The Chain Johnny - protect his aircraft from bike chain grease! | Van picks up his luggage, he bicycles into town. Fun life! | N5871C at West Yellowstone. | ||
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| N3448U at West Yellowstone. | ||||||
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| SkyWest jet taxies out. | Ramp isn't full, but plenty of planes here. | N2873C, a pretty Cessna 170B, at West Yellowstone. | N766MR, a gorgeous Husky, at West Yellowstone. | |||
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| Bob splitting wood. Campground supplies logs and splitting maul. Many of the logs are long and need a chainsaw to be cut shorter. | Vic and Joe relaxing after the long flight up. | Joe wraps up veggies for cooking over the fire. | ||||
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| Vic stirs the chili. Awesome dinner! | Sue, Dan, Joe wait for veggies to cook over the fire. | Roasted veggies! Colorful and tasty! | Great chili! | Not your typical dinner photo. | ||
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| Thumbs up on tasty! | Post-dinner, Bob and Dan around the campfire. | Vic and Sue walk down to the FBO to watch the sunset. | Sunset over the mountains, sitting on the FBO porch. | |||
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| Hanging out on the porch watching the sunset. | Sunday in the park, first bison sighted (on the road!) | Herd of Bison | ||||
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| More bison on the left. | ||||||
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| First geyser sighting | bubbling frothing steaming everywhere. | Steaming... | Steam ahead! | |||
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| Gorgeous! | Lunching near Old Faithful. | |||||
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| Bob, Sue, Vic | We didn't stay at Old Faithful long enough to see it go off, further north is gorgeous too. | Boiling water flowing into Firehole River. | ||||
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| Amazing colors! | Water flowing down into the river. | |||||
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| Sue and Vic. | Vic and Sue. | Excelsior Geyser Crater. | ||||
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| Grand Prismatic Spring | The colors are microbes, not chemicals in the rocks. | |||||
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| Stunning colors! | Opal Pool. | Turquoise Pool. | Pretty bumblebee on Vic's shirt. | Back at Excelsior Geyser Crater. | ||
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| more Bison! | ||||||
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| boiling! Firehole Lake. | ||||||
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| Elk in the river. | Gorgeous cliffs. | Firestarter blower - mattress inflator! | ||||
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| Monday morning taxiing out for departure. | Dan and Bob flying N3448U | |||||
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| West Yellowstone | West Yellowstone Airport. Town middle left, campground on right side of ramp | Big fire on the east side of the park. | Grand Prismatic Spring | |||
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| Larger view of the road, parking lot, Grand Prismatic Spring, and Excelsior Geyser Crater. | ||||||
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| Boardwalk is more visible here. | ||||||
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| Fire out east | Yellowstone Lake. | Biscuit Basin (I think). | ||||
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| Old Faithful, hotel | Geyser Basin around Old Faithful. | Loose formation with 71C on the flight home. | 71C and the fire in the east side of the park. | Darker trees are older taller, lighter green are smaller trees - the new growth since the huge 1988 fire. | ||
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| Grand Tetons, but man it's hazy with smoke :-( | 71C and Aspens turning colors. | |||||
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| More gorgeous Aspen colors. | ||||