As students of this blog know, we are into snowmobiling, from our Montana years, and also our retirement years. The basic history of all this begins here. And continues through 2022. Just enter "snowmobiling" in the search box. We had planned on going to West Yellowstone and doing the Park, again, in early January, but there was so little snow the Park was not allowing snowmobiling within its boundaries. So we can cancelled and hoped for more snow in February. It came, just enough, and on February 24th we flew to Idaho Falls and then took the shuttle to West Yellowstone, planning to spend a week in a motel there, snowmobiling every other day or so, both in the Park and in its western environs. Our first day out was a guided tour (the only way to snowmobile in the Park) to Old Faithful...
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Our steed for the day, from Two Top rentals...a Skidoo two-up
grand touring machine, 900cc, pretty much like the one we owned
earlier in this century |
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Just a couple miles into the Park, the first of several hundred bison
we saw that day |
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It looks like a crowd, but this is probably half the snowmobilers in the
Park, gathered at the first major pit stop, at Madison; our tour consisted
of 18 people, 9 sleds |
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| At Gibbon Falls |
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| Thermal areas provide grass... |
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| Street scene |
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| Old Faithful in refractory stage |
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| Right on schedule |
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We are in the front row of the bleachers...something
you could not even imagine in any other season |
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| Full eruption |
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| More thermal features |
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| Ever more |
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| Ditto |
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| Ditto again |
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| Et cetera |
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| More water features |
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| More bison |
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| Official portrait |
