Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Grand Teton National Park preserves a spectacular landscape rich with majestic mountains, pristine lakes and extraordinary wildlife. The abrupt vertical rise of the jagged Teton Range contrasts with the horizontal sage-covered valley and glacial lakes at their base

We’re almost there!!!!

Made it!!!!!!!!!!

Grand Tetons

Jenny Lake

We finally spotted a moose!

Got Snow? Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

They have plenty of it here. This was Jordyn & Robbie’s first snow and our since we moved to South Florida 11 years ago. I forgot how cold the wind and snow can be, it was in the low 20’s here.

Snowball fight!!

This one is for Jane’s old friend Mr. G in VA… It’s the white stuff!

Mudpots of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Where hot water is limited and hydrogen sulfide gas is present (emitting the "rotten egg" smell common to thermal areas), sulfuric acid is generated. The acid dissolves the surrounding rock into fine particles of silica and clay that mix with what little water there is to form the seething and bubbling mudpots. The sights, sounds, and smells of areas like Artist and Fountain paint pots and Mud Volcano make these curious features some of the most memorable in the park.

Boiling mud

Norris Geyser Basin, Wyoming

Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest and most changeable thermal area in Yellowstone. Rainbow Colors, hissing steam, and pungent odors combine to create an experience unique in Yellowstone. Porcelain Basin is open terrain with hundreds of densely packed geothermal features. The hottest of Yellowstone's geothermal features are steam vents (fumaroles). Their temperatures have been measured at 199 to 280 degrees F.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Yellowstone is a huge place, we’ll break this up into a couple posts. Yellowstone is America’s first Nation Park established in 1872. Located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, it is home to a large variety of wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. Preserved within Yellowstone National Park are Old Faithful and a collection of the world's most extraordinary geysers and hot springs, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. With half of the earth’s geothermal features, Yellowstone holds the planet’s most diverse and intact collection of geysers, hot springs, mudpots, and fumaroles. Its more than 300 geysers make up two thirds of all those found on earth. Combine this with more than 10,000 thermal features comprised of brilliantly colored hot springs, bubbling mudpots, and steaming fumaroles, and you have a place like no other.

This is our campsite, me and the kids climbed the hill across the street to take this picture. If you look close you can see Jane looking for us. Opps.. I forgot to tell her where we were going.

This is Mammoth Hot Springs, the water here boils up from deep in the earth and creates the terraces. The water reaches temperature of 199 degrees.

The water behind us cascades down the spring.

Devils Tower, Wyoming

We headed to Wyoming today to see Devils Tower. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River. Once hidden below the earth’s surface, erosion has stripped away the softer rock layers revealing the tower. This is also where the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was filmed.