After a day of fishing on the Hernys Fork of the Sake River, where I hooked a beautiful 23 inch cutthroat trout, Yellowstone had finally opened the roads up without any snow chain restrictions. So we headed in through West Yellowstone and to Madison campground and set up camp. We then headed down the road to Grand Prismatic Springs, but instead of walking the boardwalk right next to the spring, we headed over to the Fairy Falls trail. It was a nice little hike down the trail and took a little detour up the side of a small hill that over looks the spring. After slipping and sliding up the snow covered hill we were treated to an indescribable view of Grand Prismatic Spring. The sun was shinning through at our back and there were some beautiful dark snow clouds in front of us. The colors in this spring are just crazy! We were given just a brief window of time to snap some photos before the clouds blocked the sun and started to drop hail and snow. I could have spent the whole day there just sitting and taking it all in!Canon 5d MarkII, Canon 17-40mm, Canon 300mm with 1.4x TC, SanDisk Digital Film.
Soon after the beautiful sunrise the clouds came in and covered the top of the Tetons. So we jumped in the car to drive around and see the sights. We stopped at Leigh Lake to enjoy the reflections of the mountains in the crystal clear lake. Then headed on down the road toward Oxbow Bend.
By the time we got to the Bend the clouds had move on and we made some lunch and took it all in. The fall colors were not as good as I was hoping for in the rest of the park but Oxbow had some still had some color. I'm not really sure which photo I like better, there is just something about the black and white photos that catch my eye.
