I’m back in southern Utah now, and my third Yellowstone summer is a rapidly fading memory. The high elevation hot springs of one of the world’s largest active volcanoes have been replaced by a delicately sculpted red rock desert landscape. I can’t help but think back, though, on that last weekend in the Park.
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| Sawmill Geyser |
Well – Castle certainly was an impressive 20 minutes, and we didn’t even know it was going to erupt!
Fellow geyser–gazers CW and I were on a mission (check it out here and here) to see as many predictable geysers as we could during my last weekend in Yellowstone. Daisy! Riverside! Grand! Here we come!
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| Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone |
During my last weekend in Yellowstone I stumbled upon one of less than a dozen geysers in the Park that erupts predictably. As fellow geyser–gazers CW and I were on our way to somewhere else we were lucky to glimpse Castle Geyser in all its boiling, steaming action (you can read all about that fortuitous event here.
As a final finale to my third summer spent living and working in Yellowstone I decided to spend one day doing a bit of serious geyser gazing.
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| We unexpectedly happened upon Castle Geyser as it was erupting |
