Throwing Up Waterfalls

This was the first weekend Roman and I had two days off, at the same time! How Exciting! On Friday we went on an 8 mile hike to Ferry Falls and Twin Buttes. It was a great flat hike past Grand Prismatic spring, through a new growth of woods to a 197 foot waterfall. We saw a marmot chasing a chipmunk, I think they were playing tag, and a very curious squirrel. We find  some strange things to talk about while hiking.... since talking and being loud keeps the bears away.

After a snack break at Ferry Falls we continued to two woodland geysers; Spray and Imperial. There was an amazing orange river connecting the two features, you could feel the heat rising from the running waters.

Then, because our book told us it was O.K. , we went off trail and blazed up North Twin Butte. It was steep, and windy, but we made it. We figured that if Buffalo can do it, we can too. There were some buffalo prints on the way up, as well as a lone Bison, mulling on grass in the valley of the Twin Buttes. Our elevation at the summit was 7,875 feet, a 650 foot gain.

In the picture above, you should be able to find the following: Imperial Geyser, Spray Geyser, Romanko, a Lone Buffalo, Grand Prismatic, and the Firehole river. Possibly the Absaroka Mountains. 

In the evening we went to dinner, and the nightly ranger program as usual. The employee pub also hosted a "super hero party". we made an appearance wearing Spiderman and The Avengers gear, but it was lame- so we went to bed. The only person I saw dressed up at all was our friend Jude, who was "Guitar Hero" he had a pocket amp, looked like a metal rocker and was sporting a British accent and horribly gelled hair.

Saturday, we drove up to Mount Washburn, near Canyon. It had a fresh layer of snow on top of its piles of unmelted winter snow. We hiked about a mile up just to get a good look around, then headed down to do some Canyon Exploring. We hiked the South Rim, Artists point, and then headed to the North rim, Inspiration Point and Brink of Lower falls. It was a lot of up and down. We totaled 10.5 miles for the day.Oh, also it snowed on our way home, and into the evening... on June 9th.. CA RAZY!