Day 34, Monday July 20, 2015
Start Upper Firehole Campsite 0A2 21-208WT, mile 2005.3
End Summit Lake Campsite OE1 22-112CG, mile 2019.7
Going down towards Old Faithful Village in the morning, the first thing to notice is how many steam plumes can be counted.
I had to stop by Old Faithful Inn, a historic and eccentric building my family visited many years ago.
I will have to edit this photo to show the post and beam construction.
See how bent branches are used as detail, giving the impression the building was grown, not built.
Old Faithful gave a show at 11:20AM.
I fooled around in the village sucking up wifi and snacking entirely too long, so this is a later eruption at 2:20PM.
A boardwalk allows us to tour the many geysers, pools, and hot springs.
Some geysers are erratic in timing and height.
Different colors in the chromatic pools are caused by cyanobacteria and other organisms.
Sapphire pool looks sapphire.
So many wonders are here to be discovered, one gets mentally overloaded.
Someone forgot a perfectly good stroller along the trail.
Tri Bhu is a thru-hiker who flipped up to Glacier an is headed south. He hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2012, my year, but we did not meet. He has already done the PCT.
Later on I meet Buck-Thirty, who also flipped to Glacier and heads south.
He hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2012, same as me, but at an unusual start date so missed meeting people I know.
Taking a photo through the bug mesh of my tent at dusk, the moon peaks out over Summit Lake.
Tomorrow I leave the park.