Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Summer Pictures, part 9: Yellowstone, day 3
I think I only have two more sets of pictures left, after this one. Neither is as extensive as this, though. I did mentioned how I feel about waterfalls, right? Well, this was the day we hiked on a path along the Upper Falls and Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Probably the highlight of the trip, for me.
It was a glorious day!
We parked our car, then walked along a an interesting path towards the trail head. It was an unused road, followed by a used road, followed by a hiking path.
And here are the Upper Falls!
In honor of the waterfalls' glory, I made my first ever YouTube videos. Here you go! If you go to YouTube, I think you can even see it in HD. (I used the same pocket-sized Canon video camera that I used to make all of the demo videos for my Physics 105 class.)
Then the trail led down the river away from the Upper Waterfall. Here we are looking back on it.
...and then, the Lower Waterfall!
We hiked down the famous "Uncle Tom's Trail", something like 328 metal steps down the side of the canyon. It takes you close to the base of the Lower Falls.
Here's my second YouTube video!
We continued walking past the second waterfall, towards Artist Point.
Getting farther away...
What a handsome family!
Isn't he cute?
This was taken from Artist Point. You can see why the artists love it!
This one looks totally fake, doesn't it? But, on my honor, there's been no editing of the picture.
I think this is the view looking downstream from Artist Point. Still looks fake.
Another thing we saw that day, was Artist's Paint Pots. To get to the "paint pots", we had to walk through an area that looked just like a Christmas tree farm. They had had a fire, and replanted trees all at the same time, so the trees were all the same height.
Here's one of the paint pots.
Finally, I really don't know where this picture was taken, but it's a nice one of the girls.
It was a glorious day!
We parked our car, then walked along a an interesting path towards the trail head. It was an unused road, followed by a used road, followed by a hiking path.
And here are the Upper Falls!
In honor of the waterfalls' glory, I made my first ever YouTube videos. Here you go! If you go to YouTube, I think you can even see it in HD. (I used the same pocket-sized Canon video camera that I used to make all of the demo videos for my Physics 105 class.)
Then the trail led down the river away from the Upper Waterfall. Here we are looking back on it.
...and then, the Lower Waterfall!
We hiked down the famous "Uncle Tom's Trail", something like 328 metal steps down the side of the canyon. It takes you close to the base of the Lower Falls.
Here's my second YouTube video!
We continued walking past the second waterfall, towards Artist Point.
Getting farther away...
What a handsome family!
Isn't he cute?
This was taken from Artist Point. You can see why the artists love it!
This one looks totally fake, doesn't it? But, on my honor, there's been no editing of the picture.
I think this is the view looking downstream from Artist Point. Still looks fake.
Another thing we saw that day, was Artist's Paint Pots. To get to the "paint pots", we had to walk through an area that looked just like a Christmas tree farm. They had had a fire, and replanted trees all at the same time, so the trees were all the same height.
Here's one of the paint pots.
Finally, I really don't know where this picture was taken, but it's a nice one of the girls.
# posted by John Colton @ 6:43 PM 
