After backpacking to Alaska Basin, my wife and I spent a couple of days in Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park. With not a lot of time to spend, we hit some of the highlights of each park. We kayaked in Jackson Lake, took in the sunrise at Oxbow Bend, and then headed to Yellowstone. We caught the eruption of Old Faithful and toured around the Grand Prismatic Pool area. I really liked Firehole Falls at the beginning of the Firehole River canyon. The best was yet to come, however. I found a huge field of wildflowers near the shore of Yellowstone Lake and then we caught the sunset at Gull Point along the lake. What color! In the morning, we made our way out of the park to pick up our son at Buffalo Bill Boy Scout camp. There were more fields of flowers just before Sylvan Lake. The yellow was quite a contrast with the stark tree poles killed by forest fires in the area. Unfortunately, there was not much wildlife to be spotted. Only the occasional bison and elk. I think the heat had many animals hiding up high.
Sunrise, Swim Beach, Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY
Sunrise, Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, WY
Sunrise, Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, WY
Moose Falls, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Kayak, Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY
Kayak, Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY
Photographer in a Kayak, Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY
Old Faithful loop trail, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Grand Prismatic Pool area, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Geyser crater, Grand Prismatic Pool area, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Grand Prismatic Pool, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Firehole Falls, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Wildflowers, East Entrance, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Wildflowers, East Entrance, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Wildflowers, East Entrance, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Sunset, Gull Point, Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Sunset, Gull Point, Yellowstone Lake, Firehole Falls, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Sunset, Gull Point, Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Sunset, Gull Point, Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Wildflowers, Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Sunflowers, East Entrance, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Sunflowers, East Entrance, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Sylvan Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY