We got up early and had our delicious complimentary breakfast at "Trappers Family Restaurant" in town and hit the road toward Mammoth Hot Springs Tuesday of last week.
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| After 31,683 steps the day before, he was tired! |
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| Roaring Mountain in the morning light. |
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| Info. |
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| The road to Mammoth was under some pretty severe construction. It was dirt for quite a ways. |
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| There's a joke in the machinery business, every Komatsu is followed around by it's own personal service truck. This one was no exception! Surprise, a Komatsu is broke down! |
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| The clouds were getting ready for our afternoon rain. |
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| After several miles of one way dirt road, Mommy and Skyler needed a pit stop at a lone restroom right off the road. I wandered down to this little stream to scout for moose. |
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| Wow! |
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| Look how clear the water was! |
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| Sadly, no moose. In fact, we never saw a single moose on our entire trip. :( |
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| Mammoth Hot springs. Desolation city, and someone could be the mayor. |
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| Neat contrast of death and clouds. |
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| Looking at some hot water flows. |
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| Lots of iron oxide to tint this section. |
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| Reflections of clouds in the hot pools. |
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| Hot pool "scum" floating on top. |
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| Mad Max: Fury Road? |
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| Lifeless former hot spring flows. |
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| Green life in the background, death in the foreground. |
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| Limestone. |
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| Looking towards Mammoth. |
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| Really neat calcium growths. |
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| Info. |
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| Mars like landscape. |
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| Some green next to scalding, acidic water. |
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| Active water flow over the top. |
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| Green tinted pools. |
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| The colors! |
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| Background mountains were 8,000'. |
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| Steamy hole. |
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| Just like that, growth, then no growth. |
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| Reflections. |
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Taking pics and taking it all in.
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Day 3, part 2 tomorrow. More of Mammoth Hot Springs to come!
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