We got up and started hiking by six to get to old faithful before the back country office closes. It was supposed to close at 4 pm and we only had an easy 18 miles to get there but we might have to hike further you camp since there is no camping at old faithful.
The hike was boring compared to what we had been hiking in Idaho and Montana. Most of the forest we still growing back from the 1988 fire, that's crazy, I'd have thought after 27 years the trees would have been bigger but we didn't have any shade for most of the day. Still it was neat to see a forest in the in between the stages of mature pine forest and burned out forest we have been seeing.
The hike got extremely interesting when we hit the geothermal section of the park. Beads and I went off trail to go look at our first hot something. I'm not sure if it is considered a hot pool, stream vent, or a bubbling pot. Either way it was cool. After that we hit the geyser area. So many people. After being in the woods and hitting only small towns since missoula the amount of people was crazy. But I hardly noticed them since I was too busy watching the geysers waiting for them to explode. I saw old faithful 3 times and one little geyser.
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