A day around the lake

We spent the day around lake Yellowstone today and did three hikes. We started with Natural Bridge, a stone bridge carved by a stream. It was a nice hike-not to difficult. My knee started giving me more trouble during the hike-still sore from the other day.


Natural Bridge

The next hike was up elephant back mountain. Not quite sure why they call it that. Supposedly the original survey party thought it looked like an elephants back, but we couldn't tell.

Anyway, it was a great hike and we ate lunch at an overlook that had a great view of Lake Yellowstone. We saw some rain coming so we started down. We got a little rain but not much. My knee just about killed me on the way down. I decided to change out shoes from my old hiking boots to my running shoes.

We went on our final hike around storm point. My knee felt so much better on the hike. I am throwing out the old hiking boots!

Ironically enough, a storm was brewing over storm point! We had to hurry back. On the way back we ran into a couple from reno and they said they had been to a bear course and were headed to lok for bear. We hadn't seen any and followed up the road. It started raining really hard and lightning so we packed it in and headed back to the lodge. We may try again another day.


Buffalo butting heads in the middle of the road

We enjoy the quiet days like today much more than the crowd-filled days at old faithful and canyon. But, you kind of have to go to the famous places. It would be like going to paris and not seeing the eiffel tower!

We are headed to dinner. We have an early morning and a lot of driving for our day tomorrow.

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