Awoke to mostly sunny skies this morning, although pretty cold! But the sun was strong enough for us to eat our breakfast on the porch. The weather would be nice all day, partly cloudy with temps getting into the mid 50s.
Today was our day to explore the thermal areas. I had
planned to hike the Fairly Falls Trail, which was about 4 miles of flat trail
to a 196’ waterfall. I’d always wanted to do that. One our way down we stopped
at Norris Geyser Basin, Grand Prismatic at Midway, Biscuit Basin and Black Sand
Basin. The latter two are areas we were not familiar with, seemed like we always
by-passed them on our way to somewhere else. Both have some beautiful, colorful thermal
pools and small geysers.
The Fairy Falls Trail was a bust! Turns out the trail is
CLOSED because of bears in the area coming out of hibernation with bad attitudes.
They’ll open the trail later in the summer. Nuts!
We went on down to Old Faithful and got ice cream at the General
Store. The Old Faithful Inn is closed up tight. We’re not sure if they’ll ever
open these hotels this summer. The biggest issue they have is staffing. The
pandemic makes it impossible for them to import college kids from around the
world. Staffing is an issue for all businesses these days.
We headed back to Madison Junction and turned left to go on
into West Yellowstone. We arrived just about 5:00 in time for an early dinner.
We ended up at The Timberline. A good meal with a very engaging red headed young
man as our server.
Returned to our cabin by 8:00 PM. No exciting wildlife
sightings today. Just the usual bison and elk everywhere. Of course, there’s
the ground squirrels right outside our door. We’re still looking for Moose!
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